Biomass-derived carbon: synthesis and applications in energy storage and conversion

J Deng, M Li, Y Wang - Green chemistry, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The explosive growth of energy consumption demands highly efficient energy conversion
and storage devices, whose innovation greatly depends on the development of advanced …

Carbon materials for high volumetric performance supercapacitors: design, progress, challenges and opportunities

Q Wang, J Yan, Z Fan - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Volumetric performance, a much more reliable and precise parameter for evaluating the
charge-storage capacity of supercapacitors compared with gravimetric performance, has …

Hierarchically porous and heteroatom doped carbon derived from tobacco rods for supercapacitors

YQ Zhao, M Lu, PY Tao, YJ Zhang, XT Gong… - Journal of power …, 2016 - Elsevier
A novel tobacco rods-derived carbon (TC) has been prepared by hydrothermal
carbonization and potassium hydroxide activation strategy for supercapacitors application …

Three-dimensional scaffolding framework of porous carbon nanosheets derived from plant wastes for high-performance supercapacitors

C Chen, D Yu, G Zhao, B Du, W Tang, L Sun, Y Sun… - Nano Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Utilizing carbon materials derived from sustainable biomass on supercapacitors has
become particularly attractive recently. High-performance activated carbons (ACs) based on …

[PDF][PDF] A hierarchical carbon derived from sponge-templated activation of graphene oxide for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes

J Xu, Z Tan, W Zeng, G Chen, S Wu, Y Zhao, K Ni… - Adv. Mater, 2016 - staff.ustc.edu.cn
As we can see, as a cost-effective template, sponge is able to act as an excellent support for
the assembly of carbon nanostructures for SC electrodes. Sponge-templated graphene …

Interconnected hierarchical porous carbon from lignin-derived byproducts of bioethanol production for ultra-high performance supercapacitors

L Zhang, T You, T Zhou, X Zhou… - ACS applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The advent of bioethanol production has generated abundant lignin-derived byproducts
which contain proteins and polysaccharides. These byproducts are inapplicable for direct …

Nitrogen-containing ultramicroporous carbon nanospheres for high performance supercapacitor electrodes

W Lu, M Liu, L Miao, D Zhu, X Wang, H Duan, Z Wang… - Electrochimica …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we report a facile and novel synthesis of nitrogen-containing ultramicroporous
carbon nanospheres (N-UCNs) for high performance supercapacitor electrodes …

All-biomaterial supercapacitor derived from bacterial cellulose

X Wang, D Kong, Y Zhang, B Wang, X Li, T Qiu, Q Song… - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
An all-biomaterial originated film supercapacitor has been successfully fabricated for the first
time based on a unique three-dimensional bacterial cellulose (BC) derived electrode and a …

Hierarchical porous microspheres of activated carbon with a high surface area from spores for electrochemical double-layer capacitors

Y Jin, K Tian, L Wei, X Zhang, X Guo - Journal of materials chemistry A, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Owing to the advantages of high surface area, good conductivity, sustainability, and
chemical stability, biomass-based activated carbon materials have been one of the research …

Microporous carbon from a biological waste-stiff silkworm for capacitive energy storage

C Gong, X Wang, D Ma, H Chen, S Zhang, Z Liao - Electrochimica acta, 2016 - Elsevier
In general, carbon materials with high specific surface area (SSA), well-balanced pore size
distributions, and appropriate content of heteroatom functionalities are essential to enhance …