A sustainable strategy to prepare porous carbons with tailored pores from shrimp shell for use as supercapacitor electrode materials

GAO Feng; XIE Ya-qiao; ZANG Yun-hao; ZHOU Gang; QU Jiang-ying; WU Ming-bo

doi:10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60046-X

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GAO Feng, XIE Ya-qiao, ZANG Yun-hao, ZHOU Gang, QU Jiang-ying, WU Ming-bo. A sustainable strategy to prepare porous carbons with tailored pores from shrimp shell for use as supercapacitor electrode materials. New Carbon Mater., 2022, 37(4): 752-763. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60046-X

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GAO Feng, XIE Ya-qiao, ZANG Yun-hao, ZHOU Gang, QU Jiang-ying, WU Ming-bo. A sustainable strategy to prepare porous carbons with tailored pores from shrimp shell for use as supercapacitor electrode materials. New Carbon Mater., 2022, 37(4): 752-763. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60046-X

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GAO Feng, XIE Ya-qiao, ZANG Yun-hao, ZHOU Gang, QU Jiang-ying, WU Ming-bo. A sustainable strategy to prepare porous carbons with tailored pores from shrimp shell for use as supercapacitor electrode materials. New Carbon Mater., 2022, 37(4): 752-763. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60046-X

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A sustainable strategy to prepare porous carbons with tailored pores from shrimp shell for use as supercapacitor electrode materials

doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60046-X

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School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China
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College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China
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Institute of New Energy, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China

Funds: This work is supported by the NSFC (No. 51972059, 51901043), Scientific Research Foundation for Leading Scholars in Dongguan University of Technology (DGUT) (GB200902-31), and Research Start-up Funds of DGUT (GC300501-072)

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高峰，副教授. E-mail：fenggao2003@163.com
Corresponding author: QU Jiang-ying, Professor. E-mail: qujianggaofeng@163.com; WU Ming-bo, Professor. E-mail: wumb@upc.edu.cn
Received Date: 2020-09-22
Rev Recd Date: 2020-11-28

Available Online: 2021-02-05

Publish Date: 2022-07-20

Abstract

Abstract

The highly efficient synthesis of nitrogen-doped carbons with different pore structures is reported using shrimp shell as the carbon and nitrogen source, and its CaCO₃ component as the hard template and activator. The CaCO₃ content of shrimp shells can be easily changed by changing the leaching time to remove it. CaCO₃ acts as the activator and template to tailor the pore sizes of the carbons. CO₂ from the decomposition of CaCO₃ also plays an activating role. Their specific surface areas, pore volumes, ratios of micropore volume to total pore volume can be adjusted in the ranges 117.6-1 137 m² g⁻¹, 0.14-0.64 cm³ g⁻¹, and 0-73.4%, respectively. When used as the electrodes of a supercapacitor, the porous carbon obtained with a leaching time of 92 min has a high capacitance of 328 F g⁻¹ at 0.05 A g⁻¹ in a 6 mol L⁻¹ KOH electrolyte and 619.2 F g⁻¹ at 0.05 A g⁻¹ in a 1 mol L⁻¹ H₂SO₄ electrolyte. Its corresponding energy density at a power density of 1 470.9 W kg⁻¹ is 26.0 Wh kg⁻¹. This study provides a low cost method for fabricating porous carbons from biomass with a high added value.
- Strategy of functional assembly,
- Self-activation,
- Pore structures tailoring,
- Porous carbon,
- Supercapacitor

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