Sustainable activated carbon fibers from liquefied wood with controllable porosity for high-performance supercapacitors

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (30) ◽  
pp. 11706-11715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Jin ◽  
Xiaodong Yan ◽  
Yunhua Yu ◽  
Guangjie Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Specific Capacitance ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Rate Capability ◽  
High Specific Capacitance ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Micropore Surface Area ◽  
Liquefied Wood

The combination of the high micropore surface area and the controlled mesopore size and mesopore/micropore ratio is responsible for high specific capacitance and excellent rate capability.

Modified polyacrylonitrile-based activated carbon fibers applied in supercapacitor

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linjie Su ◽  
Bohong Li ◽  
Dongyu Zhao ◽  
Chuanli Qin ◽  
Zheng Jin
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Specific Surface ◽  
Specific Capacitance ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Specific Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
Electrode Material ◽  
High Specific Capacitance ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to prepare a new modified activated carbon fibers (ACFs) of high specific capacitance used for electrode material of supercapacitor. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the specific capacitance of ACF was significantly increased by using the phenolic resin microspheres and melamine as modifiers to prepare modified PAN-based activated carbon fibers (MACFs) via electrospinning, pre-oxidation and carbonization. The symmetrical supercapacitor (using MACF as electrode) and hybrid supercapacitor (using MACF and activated carbon as electrodes) were tested in term of electrochemical properties by cyclic voltammetry, AC impedance and cycle stability test. Findings It was found that the specific capacitance value of the modified fibers were increased to 167 Fg-1 by adding modifiers (i.e. 20 wt.% microspheres and 15 wt.% melamine) compared to that of unmodified fibers (86.17 Fg-1). Specific capacitance of modified electrode material had little degradation over 10,000 cycles. This result can be attributed to that the modifiers embedded into the fibers changed the original morphology and enhanced the specific surface area of the fibers. Originality/value The modified ACFs in our study had high specific surface area and significantly high specific capacitance, which can be applied as efficient and environmental absorbent, and advanced electrode material of supercapacitor.

Large‐Scale Synthesis of Nitrogen‐Doped Activated Carbon Fibers with High Specific Surface Area for High‐Performance Supercapacitors

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1901477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Dong Liao ◽  
Chuan Peng ◽  
Sheng Ping Hou ◽  
Jian Chen ◽  
Xian Guang Zeng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Specific Surface ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Specific Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
High Specific Surface Area ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Nitrogen Doped

Effect of Activated Carbon Fiber Properties on Ca2+ Removal by Capacitive Deionization

2014 ◽  
Vol 700 ◽  
pp. 281-285
Author(s):  
Qing Jun Gao ◽  
Xue Xin Liu ◽  
Lei Yuan ◽  
Kai Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Specific Capacitance ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
Pore Volume ◽  
Activated Carbon Fiber ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Capacitive Deionization ◽  
Average Pore ◽  
Fiber Properties

Three activated carbon fibers, namely Sample A, B, and C, were used as electrodes for Ca2+ removal by capacitive deionization in this study. The physical properties of ACFs were comprehensively investigated with regard to surface area, pore volume, pore size distribution, specific capacitance, and contact angle. An internal correlation was intended to reveal between the ACF properties and their CDI performance. Pseduo-first-order adsorption kinetics model could successfully depict the Ca2+ removal with different ACF electrodes. Based on the fitting parameters, Sample B with the highest pore volume, specific capacitance, and hydrophilicity exhibited the highest equilibrium electrosorption capacity (9.977 mg-Ca2+/g-ACF). However, Sample A with the highest average pore diameter (2.4 nm) has the highest rate constant (0.074/min). Even though the abundant micropores with diameters less than 2 nm created large specific surface area in Sample C, its uptake of Ca2+ was not as good as that of Sample A.

High performance electrochemical capacitors based on MnO2/activated-carbon-paper

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (24) ◽  
pp. 6166-6171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyu Cheng ◽  
Guiping Tan ◽  
Yongfu Qiu ◽  
Bing Guo ◽  
Faliang Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Specific Capacitance ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Electrochemical Capacitors ◽  
Rate Capability ◽  
Electrochemical Capacitor ◽  
High Specific Capacitance ◽  
Carbon Paper ◽  
First Time

The composite MnO2/activated-carbon-paper has been reported for the first time and it shows high specific capacitance and remarkable rate capability as an electrochemical capacitor.

scholarly journals Dissected carbon nanotubes functionalized by 1-hydroxyanthraquinone for high-performance asymmetric supercapacitors

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (76) ◽  
pp. 48341-48353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Yang ◽  
Yuying Yang ◽  
Quancai Zhang ◽  
Xiaotong Wang ◽  
Yufeng An ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Nanotubes ◽  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Specific Capacitance ◽  
Reduced Graphene Oxide ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Rate Capability ◽  
High Specific Capacitance ◽  
Covalent Modification ◽  
Asymmetric Supercapacitors ◽  
Reduced Graphene

1-Hydroxyanthraquinone (HAQ) is selected to functionalize the dissected carbon nanotubes (rDCNTs) with reduced graphene oxide layers through non-covalent modification. The composite achieves high specific capacitance and ultrahigh rate capability.

scholarly journals Photoconductivity of activated carbon fibers

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 1040-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Kuriyama ◽  
M.S. Dresselhaus
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Localized States ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Disordered Carbon ◽  
Increasing Temperature

The conductivity and photoconductivity are measured on a high-surface-area disordered carbon material, i.e., activated carbon fibers, to investigate their electronic properties. This material is a highly disordered carbon derived from a phenolic precursor, having a huge specific surface area of 1000–2000 m2/g. Our preliminary thermopower measurements show that the dominant carriers are holes at room temperature. The x-ray diffraction pattern reveals that the microstructure is amorphous-like with Lc ≃ 10 Å. The intrinsic electrical conductivity, on the order of 20 S/cm at room temperature, increases by a factor of several with increasing temperature in the range 30–290 K. In contrast, the photoconductivity in vacuum decreases with increasing temperature. The magnitude of the photoconductive signal was reduced by a factor of ten when the sample was exposed to air. The recombination kinetics changes from a monomolecular process at room temperature to a bimolecular process at low temperatures, indicative of an increase in the photocarrier density at low temperatures. The high density of localized states, which limits the motion of carriers and results in a slow recombination process, is responsible for the observed photoconductivity.

Activated carbon fiber from liquefied wood and polyvinyl butyral as an additive for production of flexible all-carbon yarn supercapacitors

Holzforschung ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 367-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxiang Huang ◽  
Wenji Yu ◽  
Guangjie Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Polyvinyl Butyral ◽  
Activated Carbon Fiber ◽  
Bet Surface Area ◽  
Liquefied Wood ◽  
New Material

AbstractA novel way to prepare mesoporous activated carbon fibers (ACFs-P) has been developed, while the ACFs-P with high surface area were obtained from liquefied wood by combining polyvinyl butyral (PVB) blending and steam activation. The porosity properties of the new material was investigated by N2adsorption and the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area was found to be 2710 m2g−1and a pore volume of 1.540 cm3g−1, of which 58.2% was mesoporous with diameters between 3 and 6 nm. ACFs-P had a higher methylene blue (MB) adsorption capacity (962 mg/g) than the PVB-added carbon fibers (CFs-P) and ACFs-P without PVB (ACFs-C). Flexible all-carbon yarn supercapacitors can be produced from ACFs-P as powder or fiber. The fiber approach led to yarn supercapacitors with a less favorable electrochemical performance than the powder based production owing to the poor strength of the fibers. A 10 cm long yarn supercapacitor from the powdered ACFs exhibited a high specific length capacitance of 43 mF cm−1at 2 mV s−1. Yarn supercapacitors showed an excellent mechanical flexibility and its capacitor properties were not diminished after bending or crumpling.

Electrodeposition of manganese dioxide film on activated carbon paper and its application in supercapacitors with high rate capability

RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (109) ◽  
pp. 64187-64192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongfu Qiu ◽  
Pingru Xu ◽  
Bing Guo ◽  
Zhiyu Cheng ◽  
Hongbo Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Manganese Dioxide ◽  
Specific Capacitance ◽  
Rate Capability ◽  
High Specific Capacitance ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Carbon Paper ◽  
High Rate Capability ◽  
First Time ◽  
Dioxide Film

The composite MnO2/ACP is reported for the first time and it shows high specific capacitance and remarkable rate capability.

scholarly journals Preparation, Surface and Pore Structure of High Surface Area Activated Carbon Fibers from Bamboo by Steam Activation

Materials ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 4431-4441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojun Ma ◽  
Hongmei Yang ◽  
Lili Yu ◽  
Yin Chen ◽  
Ying Li
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Pore Structure ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Steam Activation
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