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Facile preparation of 3D porous agar-based heteroatom-doped carbon aerogels for high-energy density supercapacitors.

ABSTRACT: The fabrication of heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials with high electrical conductivity and large specific surface area via an environmentally friendly route is critical and challenging. Herein, nitrogen and oxygen co-doped agar porous carbon (APC) was developed for supercapacitors via a one-step carbonization method with agar as the raw material and ammonia as the activator and nitrogen source. APC outperformed pectin porous carbon, tamarind porous carbon, and the previously reported carbon-based supercapacitors with a high capacitance retention of 72% even from 0.5 A g^-1 to 20 A g^-1 and excellent cycling stability in 6 M KOH solution (retained after 10 000 cycles) with a rate of over 98.5%. Furthermore, the APC electrode-based symmetric device exhibited an impressive energy density of 20.4 W h kg^-1 and an ultra-high power density of 449 W kg^-1 in 1 M Na₂SO₄ electrolyte together with excellent cycling stability (103.2% primary capacitance retentivity after 10 000 cycles). This study offers a novel method for the synthesis of nitrogen heteroatom-doped hierarchical porous carbon materials for performance-enhanced energy storage devices.

SUBMITTER: Xie K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9302333 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Facile preparation of 3D porous agar-based heteroatom-doped carbon aerogels for high-energy density supercapacitors.

Xie Kaijun K Xia Kai K Ding Xin X Fang Long L Liu Xin X Zhang Xiaodong X

RSC advances 20220721 32

The fabrication of heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials with high electrical conductivity and large specific surface area <i>via</i> an environmentally friendly route is critical and challenging. Herein, nitrogen and oxygen co-doped agar porous carbon (APC) was developed for supercapacitors <i>via</i> a one-step carbonization method with agar as the raw material and ammonia as the activator and nitrogen source. APC outperformed pectin porous carbon, tamarind porous carbon, and the previously ...[more]

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