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Activated Carbon Fiber Derived from Sisal with Large Specific Surface Area for High-Performance Supercapacitors Menglin Li, Haiyan Xiao, Tao Zhang, Qiurong Li, and Yufeng Zhao ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/ acssuschemeng.8b04607 • Publication Date (Web): 30 Jan 2019 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 31, 2019
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Activated Carbon Fiber Derived from Sisal with Large Specific Surface Area for High-Performance Supercapacitors Menglin Li†, Haiyan Xiao†, Tao Zhang‡, Qiurong Li*†, Yufeng Zhao*†
†School
of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao
066004, China ‡School
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013,
Jiangsu Province, China Mailing address: No. 438, West Section of Hebei Street, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province * Corresponding author. E-mail address:
[email protected] (Q. L.),
[email protected] (Y. Z.).
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Abstract: The use of biomass porous carbon materials for energy storage has attracted tremendous attention in current research and has great applications in supercapacitors, lithium batteries, and fuel cells. In this work, sisal-derived activated carbon fibers (SC) are obtained through a simple and convenient method using sisal, a natural biomass material, as a precursor. SC-750 has a high specific surface area (SBET: 2289 m2 g-1) and an optimized pore size distribution with a total pore volume of 1.23 cm3 g-1. For supercapacitors, the obtained SC-750 exhibits excellent specific capacitance and cycle stability. The specific capacitance value is 415 F g-1 at 0.5 A g-1, and the SC-750 shows a 93% capacitance retention after a long cycle (10,000 cycles) at 10 A g-1. In addition, the SC-750 based symmetric supercapacitor exhibits a high energy density of 11.9 Wh kg-1 in 6 M KOH electrolyte. Therefore, the results of this work demonstrate that sisalderived activated carbon fiber has a great application value in supercapacitors. Keywords: biomass; sisal; activated carbon fiber; porous materials; supercapacitors
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Supercapacitors is a new type of energy storage device between the traditional capacitor and the battery.1 It is widely concerned because of its long cycle life, high power density, environmental friendliness, and high charge/discharge efficiency.2-3 However, its lower energy density (
