Large and porous carbon sheets derived from water hyacinth for high-performance supercapacitors

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (36) ◽  
pp. 29996-30003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Wu ◽  
Biao Gao ◽  
Jianjun Su ◽  
Xiang Peng ◽  
Xuming Zhang ◽  
...  

Large and porous carbon sheets derived from water hyacinths owns high specific surface and desirable microstructures ensuring large specific capacitance, excellent rate capability and superior cyclic stability for high performance supercapacitors.

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 5712-5719
Author(s):  
Yongxiang Zhang ◽  
Peifeng Yu ◽  
Mingtao Zheng ◽  
Yong Xiao ◽  
Hang Hu ◽  
...  

Porous carbons with a high specific surface area (2314–3470 m2 g−1) are prepared via a novel KCl-assisted activation strategy for high-performance supercapacitor.


RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (73) ◽  
pp. 46329-46335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guixiang Du ◽  
Qiuxiao Bian ◽  
Jingbo Zhang ◽  
Xinhui Yang

A facile and rapid pyrolysis method is developed for the synthesis of 3D hierarchical porous carbon, which exhibits a high specific capacitance, good rate capability and good cycling performance.


Author(s):  
Shiying Lin ◽  
Lanlan Mo ◽  
Feijun Wang

Abstract A facile and environmentally friendly approach to produce self-doped hierachically porous carbon as electrode material for high-performance supercapacitor was demonstrated. 3D honeycomb-like hierarchically porous carbon was successfully obtained by one-step carbonization and activation of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) via K2CO3. With the optimized temperature of carbonization and activation, the porous carbon material achieved well-shaped hierarchically pores (micro-, meso and macropores) like a honeycomb, ultrahigh specific surface area (1666 m2·g-1), as well as highly O-self-doping (3.6 at.%), endowing an excellent electrochemical properties for the electrode in three-electrode system. The porous carbon electrode material delivered a high specific capacitance of 300.8 F·g-1 at 1 A·g-1, an eminent rate capability of 228.4 F·g-1 at the current density up to 20 A·g-1 and outstanding cycle stability of 94.3% retention after 10000 cycles. Therefore, the CMC derived hierarchical porous carbon activated by K2CO3 would have promising foreground in application of supercapacitors.


Author(s):  
Yaqi Yang ◽  
Ziqiang Shao ◽  
Feijun Wang

Abstract Due to the low specific capacitance and small specific surface area of conventional carbon materials used as electrode materials for double-layer capacitors, the search for more ideal materials and ingenious preparation methods remains a major challenge. In this study, fractional porous carbon nanosheets were prepared by co-doping Fe and N with chitosan as nitrogen source. The advantage of this method is that the carbon nanosheets can have a large number of pore structures and produce a large specific surface area. The presence of Fe catalyzes the graphitization of carbon in the carbon layer during carbonization process, and further increases the specific surface area of the electrode material. This structure provides an efficient ion and electron transport pathway, which enables more active sites to participate in the REDOX reaction, thus significantly enhancing the electrochemical performance of SCs. The specific surface area of CS-800 is up to 1587 m2 g−1. When the current density is 0.5 A g−1, the specific capacitance of CS-800 reaches 308.84 F g−1, and remains 84.61 % of the initial value after 10,000 cycles. The Coulomb efficiency of CS-800 is almost 100 % after a long cycle, which indicates that CS-800 has more ideal double-layer capacitance and pseudo capacitance.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (21) ◽  
pp. 16575-16581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingbo Wu ◽  
Peng Li ◽  
Yang Li ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Yang Wang

Porous carbons were prepared from enteromorpha with ZnCl2 as active reagent. The prepared porous carbon with a specific surface area of 1651 m2 g−1 exhibited a specific capacitance of 206 F g−1 and capacity retention of 93% even after 5000 cycles.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxi Liu ◽  
Zechuan Xiao ◽  
Yongchang Liu ◽  
Li-Zhen Fan

N and S-co-doped activated corncob sponge of honeycomb-like porous carbon with the interconnected micro-meso-macropores and the large specific surface area was evaluated as an electrode material for flexible solid-state supercapacitors, exhibiting high specific capacitance, high energy–power density, and great cyclic stability.


2020 ◽  
Vol 860 ◽  
pp. 173-177
Author(s):  
Otong Nurhilal ◽  
Renaldy Sharin Lesmana ◽  
Karina Ramadayanti ◽  
Sholihatul Habibah ◽  
Sahrul Hidayat ◽  
...  

Water Hyacinth (WH) is a plant that can absorb various pollutants in water. However, this plant is categorized as an invasive plant that can become a weed in the waters. To improve the functionality of WH, processing of WH is needed to be used for various applications. One of modifications of WH is as porous carbon for battery cathode composite. In this paper, we reported a synthesis of a porous carbon from WH. WH is processed into carbon by carbonization at various temperatures of 400, 500 and 600 °C with various activators of KOH, H3PO4 and ZnCl2 to obtain high quality porous carbon which has high electrical conductivity, large specific surface area and large porous volume. All synthesized carbons were characterized by proximate analysis measurements, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and N2 adsorption-desorption measurements. The highest carbon fixed content of 37.79% is obtained from charcoal with a carbonization temperature of 400 °C. The largest specific surface area of 264.77 m2/g was obtained from activated carbon with H3PO4 as activator. The values of pore volume and pore radius were 0.186 cm3/g and 1.56 nm, respectively.


RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (76) ◽  
pp. 48341-48353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Yang ◽  
Yuying Yang ◽  
Quancai Zhang ◽  
Xiaotong Wang ◽  
Yufeng An ◽  
...  

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.


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