Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 320, Issue -, Pages 140-152Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.04.093
Keywords
Template carbonization method; Hollow carbon material; Redox additive; Pyrocatechol and rutin; Supercapacitor
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21101052]
- Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation [1508085QE104]
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In present work, we have developed a simple but effective template carbonization method for producing hollow carbon materials with high content of nitrogen and oxygen from thiocarbanilide. Among all samples, the NPC-1 exhibits high specific surface area (736 m(2) g(-1)) and large pore volume (5.93 cm(3) g(-1)) with high content of heteroatoms (similar to 11.25 at% nitrogen and similar to 5.74 at% oxygen), which is conducive to the improvement of electrochemical performance. Specifically, the high specific capacitance and excellent cycling stability over 5000 cycles of the NPC-1-based electrode are achieved in 1 mol L-1 H2SO4 electrolyte. Additionally, pyrocatechol and rutin as novel redox additives that can easily cause redox-reactions have been incorporated into H2SO4 electrolyte to improve the capacitances. As a result, the NPC-1-R-0.15 and NPC-1-P-0.15 samples deliver high specific capacitances of 120.5 and 368.7 F g(-1) at 2 A g(-1), respectively, which are much higher than that of the NPC-1 sample (66.2 F g(-1)) without redox-additives at same current density. Furthermore, the large energy density of 18.9 and 11.9 Wh kg(-1) of the NPC-1-based symmetric supercapacitors have been obtained in H2SO4+pyrocatechol and H2SO4+rutin electrolyte, respectively, and both samples also demonstrate excellent cyclic performance for 5000 cycles. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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