Inorganic Chemicals Industry ›› 2022, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (4): 159-164.doi: 10.19964/j.issn.1006-4990.2021-0383

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Study on one-step preparation of activated carbon with high specific surface by K2CO3 activation and its capacitance performance

Zhang Tianliang1(),Li Jun1(),Xiong Wei2,Zhang Haiyan2,Tao Xiaoqiu2   

  1. 1. Sichuan University,School of Chemical Engineering,Chengdu 610065,China
    2. Sichuan Tobacco Quality Supervision and Testing Station
  • Received:2021-06-18 Online:2022-04-10 Published:2022-04-18
  • Contact: Li Jun E-mail:zz940601@gmail.com;lijunlab@163.com

Abstract:

Waste tobacco was used as the carbon source to prepare tobacco-based porous carbon in one step with K2CO3 as the activator.Scanning electron microscope(SEM),X-ray diffraction(XRD),N2 adsorption-desorption analysis(BET),Raman spectroscopy(Raman) and other methods were applied to characterize the porous material.The results showed that the surface of the material contained heteroatom groups such as ether groups and carboxyl groups,and it had a rich pore structure with a specific surface area of up to 2 058 m2/g.The electrochemical performance results in the three-electrode system showed that when the mass ratio of K2CO3 to waste tobacco was 3∶1,it had the best electrical storage performance,and its specific capacitance could reach 337 F/g at 1 A/g.It could be charged and discharged for 2 000 times at 10 A/g.The capacitance still retained 97.3% of the initial capacitance,with good rate performance and cycle stability.

Key words: waste tobacco, K2CO3, porous carbon, supercapacitor

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