Construction of High-Energy-Density Supercapacitors from Pine-Cone-Derived High-Surface-Area Carbons

ChemSusChem ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1435-1442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaliyappan Karthikeyan ◽  
Samuthirapandiyan Amaresh ◽  
Sol Nip Lee ◽  
Xueliang Sun ◽  
Vanchiappan Aravindan ◽  
...  
RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (38) ◽  
pp. 21724-21732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vichuda Sattayarut ◽  
Thanthamrong Wanchaem ◽  
Pundita Ukkakimapan ◽  
Visittapong Yordsri ◽  
Paweena Dulyaseree ◽  
...  

Nitrogen self-doped activated carbons with high surface area obtained via the direct activation of Samanea saman leaves for high energy density supercapacitors.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Qun Zhang ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
Mao-Cheng Liu ◽  
Shang-Ke Yuan ◽  
Leng-Yuan Niu

Transition metal phosphide alloys possess the metalloid characteristics and superior electrical conductivity and are a kind of high electrical conductive pseudocapacitive materials. Herein, high electrical conductive cobalt phosphide alloys are fabricated through a liquid phase process and a nanoparticles structure with high surface area is obtained. The highest specific capacitance of 286 F g−1 is reached at a current density of 0.5 A g−1. 63.4% of the specific capacitance is retained when the current density increased 16 times and 98.5% of the specific capacitance is maintained after 5000 cycles. The AC//CoP asymmetric supercapacitor also shows a high energy density (21.3 Wh kg−1) and excellent stability (97.8% of the specific capacitance is retained after 5000 cycles). The study provides a new strategy for the construction of high-performance energy storage materials by enhancing their intrinsic electrical conductivity.


2014 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 79-81
Author(s):  
Abina M. Crean ◽  
Robert J. Ahern ◽  
Rakesh Dontireddy ◽  
Walid Faisil ◽  
John P. Hanrahan ◽  
...  

Low drug water-solubility is a major challenge to overcome in the development of tablet or capsule dosage forms for a large number of promising drug candidates. Strategies to improve drug solubility and dissolution involve chemical, physical and formulation approaches. An emerging formulation approach to increase drug dissolution and solubility involves the creation of solid dispersions of drug molecules on to a high surface area inorganic carrier, such as porous silica. The combined benefits of a hydrophilic inorganic substrate, increased drug surface area and a high-energy drug form facilitate rapid drug dissolution into aqueous based media and can create supersaturated drug solutions. The work presented provides a brief overview of the silica grades investigated, processes employed to load drugs onto the silica substrates, provide some examples of the ability of silica to enhance drug dissolution and highlight some of the challenges in the development of these novel drug delivery systems.


Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Gu ◽  
Le-Qing Fan ◽  
Jian-Ling Huang ◽  
Cheng-Long Geng ◽  
Jian-Ming Lin ◽  
...  

Co@NiSe2 electrode materials were synthesized via a simple hydrothermal method by using nickel foam in situ as the backbone and subsequently characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and a specific surface area analyzer. Results show that the Co@NiSe2 electrode exhibits a nanowire structure and grows uniformly on the nickel foam base. These features make the electrode show a relatively high specific surface area and electrical conductivity, and thus exhibit excellent electrochemical performance. The obtained electrode has a high specific capacitance of 3167.6 F·g−1 at a current density of 1 A·g−1. To enlarge the potential window and increase the energy density, an asymmetric supercapacitor was assembled by using a Co@NiSe2 electrode and activated carbon acting as positive and negative electrodes, respectively. The prepared asymmetrical supercapacitor functions stably under the potential window of 0–1.6 V. The asymmetric supercapacitor can deliver a high energy density of 50.0 Wh·kg−1 at a power density of 779.0 W·kg−1. Moreover, the prepared asymmetric supercapacitor exhibits a good rate performance and cycle stability.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soochan Kim ◽  
Simindokht Shirvani-Arani ◽  
Sungsik Choi ◽  
Misuk Cho ◽  
Youngkwan Lee

AbstractLi–S batteries have attracted considerable interest as next-generation energy storage devices owing to high energy density and the natural abundance of sulfur. However, the practical applications of Li–S batteries are hampered by the shuttle effect of soluble lithium polysulfides (LPS), which results in low cycle stability. Herein, a functional interlayer has been developed to efficiently regulate the LPS and enhance the sulfur utilization using hierarchical nanostructure of C3N4 (t-C3N4) embedded with Fe3O4 nanospheres. t-C3N4 exhibits high surface area and strong anchoring of LPS, and the Fe3O4/t-C3N4 accelerates the anchoring of LPS and improves the electronic pathways. The combination of these materials leads to remarkable battery performance with 400% improvement in a specific capacity and a low capacity decay per cycle of 0.02% at 2 C over 1000 cycles, and stable cycling at 6.4 mg cm−2 for high-sulfur-loading cathode.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (38) ◽  
pp. 14586-14594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Matabosch Coromina ◽  
Beatrice Adeniran ◽  
Robert Mokaya ◽  
Darren A. Walsh

The energy/power density of EDLCs containing high surface area carbon nanotube-based electrodes bridges the performance gap between conventional EDLCs and batteries.


Author(s):  
Karthikeyan Gunasekaran Govindarasu ◽  
Boopathi Ganesan ◽  
Ramani Venkatesan ◽  
Pandurangan Arumugam

AbstractDoping of heteroatom into well-structured mesoporous carbon architecture can significantly augment the capacitive performance. In this work, we report P-doped graphitic hollow carbon spheres (P-GHCS) grown over Fe-KIT-6 through the in situ approach using the catalytic CVD technique. The obtained P-GHCS possesses a relatively high surface area with uniform mesoporous structure, good graphitization with tunable P-doping contents. The highly favorable structure and desirable heteroatom doping were taken into account to evaluate the P-GHCS as a modified electrode material towards high-performance supercapacitor. The optimized P-GHCS-800 sample exhibits superior specific capacitance (Csp) 321 F g−1 at 0.2 A g−1 with outstanding cycling stability with 2.9% loss of its initial capacitance after 2000 cycles in 6 M KOH electrolyte background in the three-electrode computerized system. More importantly, the fabricated P-GHCS-800 symmetric supercapacitor device can withstand at a wide potential width of 2.0 V, together with remarkable cyclic stability (89.09%) after 2000 cycles at a current density of 1 A g−1 in aqueous 1 M Na2SO4 as electrolyte providing a relatively high energy density of 10.83 Wh kg−1 with a power density of 222.78 W kg−1. Additionally, we demonstrated the single symmetric supercapacitor cell which provided sufficient energy to turn on a red LED of 20 mW and emit light over a certain period of time opens up possible realistic applications.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Anastasios I. Tsiotsias ◽  
Nikolaos D. Charisiou ◽  
Ioannis V. Yentekakis ◽  
Maria A. Goula

The conversion of CO2, captured from flue gases, into synthetic natural gas (SNG) aims to create a closed carbon cycle, where excess H2 produced from renewables is utilized to transform CO2 released from existing conventional power plants into a reliable and high energy density carrier, that is CH4. In the last five years, extensive research effort has been dedicated to the synthesis and optimization of composite materials for the realization of this process. These materials, also known as dual-function materials or DFMs, typically consist of an alkaline metal oxide or carbonate phase, along with a Ru or Ni metallic phase supported on a high surface area carrier. The DFMs incorporate both sorptive and catalytic capabilities, capturing the CO2 in the initial sorption step and then converting it into CH4 upon H2 inflow. The dispersion of the sorptive and catalytically active phases, the CO2 affinity of the alkaline phase, the reducibility of the supported metals, and the selectivity towards CH4 production are some of the parameters influencing their performance. Hereby, we aim to present the most recent works dedicated to the development and optimization of such dual-function materials to be used in the combined capture and methanation of CO2.


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