A review of porous carbons produced by template methods for supercapacitor applications

ZHANG Wei; CHENG Rong-rong; BI Hong-hui; LU Yao-hui; MA Lian-bo; HE Xiao-jun

doi:10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60005-7

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ZHANG Wei, CHENG Rong-rong, BI Hong-hui, LU Yao-hui, MA Lian-bo, HE Xiao-jun. A review of porous carbons produced by template methods for supercapacitor applications. New Carbon Mater., 2021, 36(1): 69-81. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60005-7

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ZHANG Wei, CHENG Rong-rong, BI Hong-hui, LU Yao-hui, MA Lian-bo, HE Xiao-jun. A review of porous carbons produced by template methods for supercapacitor applications. New Carbon Mater., 2021, 36(1): 69-81. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60005-7

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A review of porous carbons produced by template methods for supercapacitor applications

doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60005-7

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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan, 243032, China
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School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan, 243032, China

Funds: The authors thank to the Nature Science Foundation of China (No. U1710116, 52072002 and 51872005), Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. 1808085ME138), and Key Projects of Natural Science Foundation of Universities in Anhui Province (No. KJ2019A0075)

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ZHANG Wei, Experimentalist. E-mail: zw2010@ahut.edu.cn
Corresponding author: HE Xiao-jun, Professor. E-mail: xjhe@ahut.edu.cn
Received Date: 2020-12-07
Rev Recd Date: 2021-01-13
Publish Date: 2021-02-01

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Porous carbons are widely used in the energy storage and conversion field because of their excellent electrical conductivity, high specific surface area and superb electrochemical stability. The template method is one of the most advanced approaches to prepare porous carbons with well-defined pore structures and suitable pore size distributions. The pore formation mechanism and structure-property relationships of porous carbons obtained by template methods for supercapacitor electrodes are summarized. They include hard templates (magnesium-based, silica-based, zinc-based, calcium-based templates), soft templates (conventional soft template, ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvent) and self-templates (biomass, MOFs). Furthermore, the problems in tailoring the pore texture of porous carbons are clarified, and proposals are made for future research.
- Template method,
- Porous carbon,
- Supercapacitor,
- Research advance

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