Issue 8, 2018

Porous carbons derived from waste printing paper for high rate performance supercapacitors in alkaline, acidic and neutral electrolytes

Abstract

Renewable biomass as a precursor in the preparation of sustainable carbon materials for supercapacitors has gained much attention due to its huge reserves and being economical. In this paper, we used waste printing paper as the precursor to prepare highly porous carbons via a combined method of pre-carbonation and KOH activation. The prepared carbon materials exhibit huge specific surface areas and good conductivities as high as 2616.1 m2 g−1 and 198.8 mS cm−1, respectively. They were used as the electrode materials of supercapacitors in the most common aqueous electrolytes, including 6 M KOH, 1 M H2SO4, and 1 M Na2SO4, and showed excellent capacitive performance in all the investigated electrolytes, such as very high specific capacitances (e.g. 385.0, 370.1, and 317.7 F g−1 in KOH, H2SO4 and Na2SO4 electrolyte at 0.2 A g−1, respectively), outstanding rate capabilities (e.g. 198 F g−1 at 60 A g−1 in H2SO4), high energy densities (e.g. 21.9 W h kg−1 in Na2SO4), high power capability (at 28 000 W kg−1, remains at 5.83 W h kg−1 in Na2SO4), and good recyclability (about 94% retention after 10 000 cycles).

Graphical abstract: Porous carbons derived from waste printing paper for high rate performance supercapacitors in alkaline, acidic and neutral electrolytes

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 dec 2017
Accepted
15 jan 2018
First published
22 jan 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 3974-3981

Porous carbons derived from waste printing paper for high rate performance supercapacitors in alkaline, acidic and neutral electrolytes

D. Liu, Y. Wang, Z. Qiu, Y. Li, L. Wang, Y. Zhao and J. Zhou, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 3974 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA13226C

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