TY - JOUR
T1 - High surface area activated carbon synthesized from bio-based material for supercapacitor application
AU - Ma, Jianfeng
AU - Huang, Wenyan
AU - Chen, Kunfeng
AU - Xue, Dongfeng
AU - Komarneni, Sridhar
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - High surface area porous activated carbon samples were synthesized from banana peels by a conventional activation process at the temperature of 750°C. The as-activated carbon samples were characterized by both XRD and TEM measurements. When fabricated as supercapacitor electrode materials, these as-activated carbon samples can show double-layer capacitance characteristics with the specific capacitance values of 154 and 140 F/g at the scan rates of 5 and 70 mV/s, respectively. The high retention (91%) can be obtained with the scan rate increasing from 5 to 70 mV/s. The current results suggest that these as-activated carbon materials from bio-based banana peels can be potentially used as economic, sustainable and high-performance supercapacitor electrode materials.
AB - High surface area porous activated carbon samples were synthesized from banana peels by a conventional activation process at the temperature of 750°C. The as-activated carbon samples were characterized by both XRD and TEM measurements. When fabricated as supercapacitor electrode materials, these as-activated carbon samples can show double-layer capacitance characteristics with the specific capacitance values of 154 and 140 F/g at the scan rates of 5 and 70 mV/s, respectively. The high retention (91%) can be obtained with the scan rate increasing from 5 to 70 mV/s. The current results suggest that these as-activated carbon materials from bio-based banana peels can be potentially used as economic, sustainable and high-performance supercapacitor electrode materials.
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U2 - 10.1166/nnl.2014.1875
DO - 10.1166/nnl.2014.1875
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84918800520
VL - 6
SP - 997
EP - 1000
JO - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters
JF - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters
SN - 1941-4900
IS - 11
ER -