Benign species-tuned biomass carbonization to nano-layered graphite for EMI filtering and greener energy storage functions

Sossina Gezahegn, Christian Garcia, Runshen Lai, Xiaxing Zhou, Jimi Tjong, Sean C. Thomas, Fang Huang, Shaffiq Jaffer, Yang Weimin and Mohini Sain

Renewable Energy, 2021, vol. 164, issue C, 1039-1051

Abstract: For the first time the electrical conductivity of bamboo biographite-based material reported a ground-breaking milestone of 4.4 × 104 (S/m). This reported conductivity by far exceeded all previous reported conductivity measurements obtained from renewable carbon. Controlled high-temperature thermal carbonization of biomass, notably Asian bamboo, at extended residence times elicited surprising growth of nano-layered biographitic structures with a layer-to-layer distance of less than 0.3440 nm. Moreover, thermodynamically dispersed bamboo and pine biographitic nano-layered carbon-based lightweight composites in a polyamide matrix were found to be intrinsically conductive both thermally and electrically. Electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding device made from bamboo renewable carbon/cellulose nanofiber (CNF) composites possesses EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) of ∼23 dB. These results constitute a new advancement in the materials science of nano-layered graphites from renewables and their applications as EMI filtering devices and as electrode materials in air cathodes, electronics, supercapacitors in energy storage devices, and thermal management of batteries and sensors.

Keywords: Advanced renewable carbon materials; Electrical conductivity; Renewable materials; Thermal conductivity; Polyamide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.10.010

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