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Promising nature-based activated carbon derived from flowers of Borassus flabellifer for supercapacitor applications

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2021, 31(6), pp.1145-1153
  • DOI : 10.1007/s42823-021-00237-2
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
  • Received : August 30, 2020
  • Accepted : March 3, 2021
  • Published : December 1, 2021

Iro Zaharaddeen S. 1 Subramani C. 1 Rajendran Jerome 1 Sundramoorthy Ashok K. 1

1SRM Institute of Science and Technology

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ABSTRACT

Recently, activated carbon derived from diferent agricultural by-products or bio-waste is receiving a great deal of attention due to its low or zero cost and environmental friendliness. In this work, fowers obtained from Borassus fabellifer (BFL) is used as a carbon source and potassium hydroxide (KOH) as activation precursor to produce activated carbon with high specifc surface area and predominant micropore. The obtained carbon material was activated at 650 °C. The as-prepared sample had a specifc surface area of 930.3 m2 /g and pore size distribution of 1.96 nm. The carbon material exhibited high electrochemical performance with a specifc capacitance of 247 F/g at 0.5 A/g in 1 M H2SO4 electrolyte and an excellent cycling stability of 94% after 2500 cycles. A specifc energy of 101.1 Wh/kg and a specifc power of 4500 kW/kg were obtained. Based on the electrochemical properties exhibited by BFL, it could be used as an excellent electrode material for supercapacitor applications.

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