Review
Engineering, Environmental
Xiaohua Zhang, Ruyun Han, Yanzhen Liu, Hengxiang Li, Wenjing Shi, Xiaoyan Yan, Xinxin Zhao, Yongfeng Li, Baosheng Liu
Summary: This review summarizes the recent progress in the preparation methods of biomass-based porous graphitic carbon (BPGC), including activation, catalytic graphitization, and simultaneous activation-graphitization. The mechanisms of structure evolution during activation and graphitization are highlighted. The advances in optimizing and restructuring the microstructure of BPGC from 0D to 3D are presented. The structure-performance correlation of BPGC for supercapacitors is discussed, along with the challenges and opportunities for its further development in energy storage.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jianhua Yu, Xu Li, Zhenxing Cui, Di Chen, Xiancai Pang, Qian Zhang, Feifei Shao, Hongzhou Dong, Liyan Yu, Lifeng Dong
Summary: The hydrothermal process effectively stabilizes heteroatoms (N and P), improves graphitization, and enhances the capacitive properties of biomass-derived carbon materials.
Article
Energy & Fuels
Zhiguo Nie, Ye Wang, Xinyi Li, Rui Wang, Yang Zhao, Hua Song, Huan Wang
Summary: A series of nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbon materials were prepared by hydrothermal pretreatment and carbonization with ZnCl2 as the activator. The N2PC5 electrode showed optimal supercapacitor performance, with a specific capacitance of 321.5 F g(-1) at 0.5 A g(-1) and a capacitance retention ratio of 93% after 10,000 charge-discharge cycles, indicating the significance of developing low-cost, high-performance supercapacitors through a simple and effective preparation route.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Sivagaami Sundari Gunasekaran, Arthi Gopalakrishnan, Raghu Subashchandrabose, Sushmee Badhulika
Summary: In this study, nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets were synthesized from bamboo biomass for high performance asymmetric supercapacitor applications. The detailed characterization revealed the importance of heteroatom doping for improving supercapacitor performance. The resulting asymmetric supercapacitor device showed significantly enhanced specific capacitance and retention over charge-discharge cycles, making it a promising low cost and sustainable electrode material for high energy supercapacitor applications.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Qian Li, Tingyan Lu, Linlin Wang, Ruixue Pang, Jiawei Shao, Linlin Liu, Xin Hu
Summary: In this study, N-doped porous carbons were synthesized using biomass lotus stalks, showing excellent CO2 adsorption properties and electrochemical performance, indicating potential applications in CO2 capture and supercapacitors.
SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Ceramics
Xiaoxi Dong, Jingyue Wang, Meifang Yan, Bin Ren, Junfeng Miao, Lihui Zhang, Zhenfa Liu, Yuelong Xu
Summary: A one-step strategy for synthesizing hierarchical porous carbon derived from phenolic resin and configuring electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) is reported. The carbon material prepared has a flexible porous structure, large specific surface area, and high specific capacitance. The optimized electrode material has an ultra-long cycle lifetime and is expected to realize high rate capacitance for supercapacitor applications.
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Huan Liu, Xiuli Huang, Menglei Zhou, Jianping Gu, Maodong Xu, Lu Jiang, Maoqing Zheng, Shi Li, Zongcheng Miao
Summary: In order to achieve the double carbon goals, the conversion of biomass waste into high value-added energy products is crucial. In this study, a N/O co-doped 3D hierarchical porous carbon was fabricated from orange peels via an efficient KOH-assisted protocol for supercapacitor application. The resulting carbon material exhibited a hierarchical architecture with interconnected multiscale vacancies and optimized pore size distribution, as well as a beneficial co-doping of N and O heteroatoms. This led to excellent performance as a supercapacitor electrode, with high specific capacitance, attractive rate capability, and superior cycling stability.
JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED PYROLYSIS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Long Wu, Yimeng Cai, Shizhe Wang, Zhanyong Li
Summary: A novel and facile method utilizing non-thermal plasma was proposed to increase N active sites in biomass-derived porous carbon electrodes for supercapacitors, resulting in greatly improved specific capacitances and cycling stability.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Yifan Wang, Huiling Li, Weisen Yang, Shaoju Jian, Chunmei Zhang, Gaigai Duan
Summary: In this study, N-doped porous carbon electrodes were prepared by one-step activation carbonization method using camellia oleifera branches as raw material and NH4Cl as the activator. The N-doped sample exhibited high specific capacitance and superior rate performances, which can widen its practical application in supercapacitor devices.
DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Kanruethai Charoensook, Cheng-Liang Huang, Hung-Chun Tai, V. Venkata Krishna Lanjapalli, Li-Ming Chiang, Soraya Hosseini, Yao-Tung Lin, Yuan-Yao Li
Summary: Biomass-derived porous activated carbon with high surface area and nitrogen functional groups were prepared for supercapacitor application using rice straw as the precursor. The nitrogen-doped AC exhibited excellent capacitance performance and cycling stability under evaluation. Ionic liquid electrolyte enabled higher energy density to be achieved.
JOURNAL OF THE TAIWAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Arthi Gopalakrishnan, Sushmee Badhulika
Summary: The study presents the synthesis of N, S, P-self-doped porous and wrinkled graphene-like carbon nanosheets from waste onion skin, exhibiting excellent supercapacitor performance with high specific capacitance and good rate capability. The symmetric supercapacitor device assembled using these materials shows outstanding specific energy and cyclic stability, indicating great potential for renewable and sustainable energy storage devices.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Chuan Yuan, Mao Chen, Kai Zhu, Jun Ni, Shuang Wang, Bin Cao, Shan Zhong, Jingsong Zhou, Shurong Wang
Summary: Three-dimensionally nitrogen-doped interconnected porous carbons were prepared from cost-effective biomasses and utilized as EDLC electrodes, showing excellent capacitive behaviors and cycling stability.
FUEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Ramadhass Keerthika Devi, Muthusankar Ganesan, Tse-Wei Chen, Shen-Ming Chen, Muthumariappan Akilarasan, Syang-Peng Rwei, Jaysan Yu, Tamilalagan Elayappan, Anlin Shaju
Summary: The surface morphology and performance of nickel sulfide (NiS) have been modified by doping with manganese (Mn), resulting in a nanosheet structure with a maximum specific capacitance of 815 g-1 at 2 A-1. Additionally, oxygen (O) and nitrogen (N) enriched 3D-graphene-like porous activated carbon (ONAC) has been derived from biomass. A hybrid supercapacitor (HSC) composed of Mn-NiS nanosheets as the positive electrode, ONAC as the negative electrode, and PVA/KOH gel as the electrolyte exhibited impressive specific energy of 44.2 W h kg-1 at 825 W kg-1 specific power.
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Hongying Quan, Wenhao Tao, Yan Wang, Dezhi Chen
Summary: This study reports a facile strategy to improve the capacitive behavior of biomass-derived porous carbons by introducing highly graphitized carbon quantum dots (CQDs) into their structure. The resulting CQDs/HPC composites exhibit a well-developed porous structure, improved charge/ion transfer kinetics, and high capacitance and rate capability. Moreover, these composites also show high long-term stability.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Xuetao Zhang, Qifang Lu, Enyan Guo, Jiansong Feng, Mingzhi Wei, Jingyun Ma
Summary: Poplar catkins are used as a biotemplate for designing interconnected porous carbon materials for hybrid supercapacitors. NiCo LDH/IPC composites exhibit superior electrochemical performance and provide higher specific energy and better cycling stability in hybrid supercapacitors compared to pure NiCo LDH electrodes.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Mingren Liu, Lei Wang, Mengying Si, Zhongren Wang, Tingzheng Zhang, Xunqiang Cheng, Xiaobo Min, Liyuan Chai, Yan Shi
BIOENERGY RESEARCH
(2019)
Article
Agricultural Engineering
Mengying Si, Dan Liu, Mingren Liu, Xu Yan, Congjie Gao, Liyuan Chai, Yan Shi
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Kejing Zhang, Mingren Liu, Mengying Si, Zhongren Wang, Shengnan Zhuo, Liyuan Chai, Yan Shi
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Mingren Liu, Kejing Zhang, Mengying Si, Haiying Wang, Liyuan Chai, Yan Shi
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Haiying Wang, Dun Wei, Haiyin Gang, Yingjie He, Haoyu Deng, Lanjing Hou, Yan Shi, Sheng Wang, Weichun Yang, Liyuan Zhang
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
(2020)
Article
Agricultural Engineering
Mengying Si, Mika Sillanpaa, Shengnan Zhuo, Jin Zhang, Mingren Liu, Sheng Wang, Congjie Gao, Liyuan Chai, Feiping Zhao, Yan Shi
INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS
(2020)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Kejing Zhang, Xiaoye Min, Tingzheng Zhang, Mengying Si, Jun Jiang, Liyuan Chai, Yan Shi
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2020)
Article
Agricultural Engineering
Jiawei Li, Zhihui Yang, Kejing Zhang, Mingren Liu, Dan Liu, Xu Yan, Mengying Si, Yan Shi
Summary: An efficient biostrategy was developed to upgrade waste sugar in Dilute Acid Pretreatment Liquor (DAPL) of lignocellulose, using Bacillus megaterium B-10 to convert the waste sugar into high-valuable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA). The concentration of sugar and phenolics in DAPL can reach certain levels after pretreating rice straw, and a demonstrated yield of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) was achieved through this bioconversion.
INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS
(2021)
Article
Electrochemistry
Xiaoye Min, Tingzheng Zhang, Mingbo Xie, Kejing Zhang, Liyuan Chai, Zhang Lin, Chunlian Ding, Yan Shi
Summary: In this study, a simple oxidation-coordination method was developed to synthesize a FeCoNi nanoparticles-modified nitrogen-doped carbon hybrid with lignin as the carbon precursor for oxygen evolution reaction. The obtained material exhibited high OER activity due to the increased functional groups and abundant active sites.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Kejing Zhang, Mingren Liu, Tingzheng Zhang, Xiaoye Min, Zhongren Wang, Liyuan Chai, Yan Shi
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
(2019)