Paper flower-derived porous carbons with high-capacitance by chemical and physical activation for sustainable applications

Porous carbon nanosheets were prepared by the carbonization of paper flower via chemical and physical activation. The structural properties of the as-prepared carbons were characterized using the techniques, such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Raman spectroscopy, N2 sorption isotherms and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), while the related morphological analyses were conducted using scanning/transmission electron microscopy (SEM/TEM). The obtained carbons exhibit a high specific surface area up to 1801 m2 g−1 with a robust porous graphitic carbon layer structure, which provides the merits for potential application in energy storage and dye removal. We carried out potentiostatic and galvanostatic measurements using a three-electrode cell in 1.0 M H2SO4 aqueous electrolyte and achieved a specific capacitance of 118, 109.5, 101.7, 93.6, and 91.2 F g−1 at 1, 2, 4, 8 and 12 A g−1, respectively. The stability at 12 A g−1 was tested to reach 10,000 cycles with capacity retention of around 97.4%. We have demonstrated that the paper flower-derived carbons at activation temperature 800 °C (PFC-800) can be used as a promising electrode material in supercapacitor. PFC-800 can also serve as an efficient sunset yellow dye removal, showing the maximum adsorption capacity for sunset yellow (Q0, 273.6 mg g−1).

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Article

Tác giả:

Veerakumar, Pitchaimani

Đề mục:

Arabian Journal of Chemistry

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Elsevier Ltd.

Ngày xuất bản:

January 2020

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Arabian Journal of Chemistry, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 2995-3007

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Paper flower-derived porous carbons with high-capacitance by chemical and physical activation for sustainable applications

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