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Hierarchically Porous Carbon Nanosheets from One-Step Carbonization of Zinc Gluconate for High-Performance Supercapacitors

Supercapacitors, with high energy density, rapid charge–discharge capabilities, and long cycling ability, have gained favor among many researchers. However, the universality of high-performance carbon-based electrodes is often constrained by their complex fabrication methods. In this study, the comm...

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Autores principales: Tian, Zhiwei, Weng, Zhangzhao, Xiao, Junlei, Wang, Feng, Zhang, Chunmei, Jiang, Shaohua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10531767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37762468
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms241814156
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Sumario:Supercapacitors, with high energy density, rapid charge–discharge capabilities, and long cycling ability, have gained favor among many researchers. However, the universality of high-performance carbon-based electrodes is often constrained by their complex fabrication methods. In this study, the common industrial materials, zinc gluconate and ammonium chloride, are uniformly mixed and subjected to a one-step carbonization strategy to prepare three-dimensional hierarchical porous carbon materials with high specific surface area and suitable nitrogen doping. The results show that a specific capacitance of 221 F g(−1) is achieved at a current density of 1 A g(−1). The assembled symmetrical supercapacitor achieves a high energy density of 17 Wh kg(−1), and after 50,000 cycles at a current density of 50 A g(−1), it retains 82% of its initial capacitance. Moreover, the operating voltage window of the symmetrical device can be easily expanded to 2.5 V when using Et(4)NBF(4) as the electrolyte, resulting in a maximum energy density of up to 153 Wh kg(−1), and retaining 85.03% of the initial specific capacitance after 10,000 cycles. This method, using common industrial materials as raw materials, provides ideas for the simple preparation of high-performance carbon materials and also provides a promising method for the large-scale production of highly porous carbons.