本研究成功以溶膠-凝膠法製備出氧化鎳鈷氣凝膠，未經鍛燒處理已具有normal-spinel結構之晶相，其比表面積達156 m2/g，經200℃鍛燒處理後，表面積仍有134 m2/g，隨著鍛燒溫度增加，比表面積跟著下降，晶相也有轉移變化。當鍛燒至400℃時，NiCo2O4晶相轉移成inverse-spinel，對氧氣產生效率(oxygen evolution reaction, OER)也造成影響。於電解液1 M KOH中，進行線性循環伏安掃描與其他鍛燒溫度進行比較，可知熱處理200℃時，OER有最佳效率，其Tafel slope，b值為59 mV/dec，而電流密度100 mA時過電位η則是0.184 V，相較於其他文獻上所使用之不同結構NiCo2O4，本研究使用的氣凝膠有著相當好的效率。氧化鎳鈷乾凝膠，同氣凝膠，未經鍛燒處理亦具有normal-spinel結構之晶相，經200℃鍛燒處理後，表面積為113 m2/g，與其他鍛燒溫度比較，熱處理200℃之樣品OER有著最佳效率，其b值為62 mV/dec，η為0.227 V。
　　仿效文獻以熱沉積方式製備出具inverse-spinel結構的氧化鎳鈷奈米顆粒，並與氧化鎳鈷氣凝膠及乾凝膠效率最佳兩組做比較分析。由熱沉積法製備出的奈米顆粒，由於經過600℃高溫鍛燒，使得孔洞體積極小，僅有0.097 cc/g，比表面積為13 m2/g，因此其OER效率不如其他兩者佳，其產氧初始電壓為0.47 V，b值為81 mV/dec，η為0.379 V。因此，本研究中，由溶膠-凝膠法製備出的氧化鎳鈷氣凝膠，於鍛燒溫度200℃時，有最佳的OER效率。
　　為了提升改善氧化鎳鈷在超級電容器上的行為表現，本研究使用高導電性及高比表面積的碳氣凝膠做為骨架，製備出氧化鎳鈷/碳氣凝膠複合電極，比電容值於掃描速率25 mV/s、電解液1 M NaOH、操作電位-0.1~0.55 V vs. Ag/AgCl，可達1,696 F/g，經計算得到，能量密度及功率密度分別為67.6 Wh/kg及16 kW/kg，於下世代超級電容器之設計需求，提供了一個低成本，高效能之材料選擇。

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