Nickel catalytic graphitized porous carbon as electrode material for high performance supercapacitors

Keliang Wang, Yuhe Cao, Xiaomin Wang, Parashu Ram Kharel, William Gibbons, Bing Luo, Zhengrong Gu, Qihua Fan and Lloyd Metzger

Energy, 2016, vol. 101, issue C, 9-15

Abstract: Whey-protein-derived nitrogen-doped porous carbon has been prepared by preliminary carbonization at 400 °C and final KOH activation at 700 °C combined with catalytic graphitization. Physical characterization indicated that the nitrogen-doped activated electrode material had a large specific surface area (2536 m2 g−1) and plenty of interconnected cavities, which greatly improved the performance of supercapacitors. Electrochemical measurements demonstrated that the as-prepared activated electrode material had exceptionally high capacitance of 248 F g−1 at charge/discharge current density of 0.1 A g−1. Moreover, the prepared supercapacitors exhibited ideal capacitive behavior with nearly no capacitance loss in 6 mol L−1 KOH at different charge/discharge current densities ranging from 0.1 to 5 A g−1 after 1000 charge/discharge cycles. The derived energy density was 12.4 Wh kg−1 at a power density of 495 W kg−1 under operational conditions. These results suggested that the whey-protein-derived porous carbon is a promising supercapacitor electrode material.

Keywords: Nickel catalytic graphitized; Nitrogen doped carbon; Porous carbon; Supercapacitor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.01.059

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