Oxygen/phosphorus co-doped porous carbon from cicada slough as high-performance electrode material for supercapacitors

Bingwei Chen, Wenzhuo Wu, Chunyang Li, Yanfang Wang, Yi Zhang, Lijun Fu, Yusong Zhu, Lixin Zhang, Yuping Wu

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Abstract

Synthesizing high-performance electrode materials plays a vital role in fabricating advanced supercapacitors. Heteroatom doping has been proved to be effective in enhancing the electrochemical properties of carbon-based electrodes. Herein, we report an O, P co-doped porous carbon (PC) originated from waste biomaterials, cicada sloughs. The PC possesses meso-/microporous structure with a large specific surface area (1945 m 2 ·g −1 ) and a high O, P co-doping ratio of 18 wt.%. These superior factors together enable it to deliver high specific capacitance (295 F·g −1 in 6 M KOH and 291 F·g −1 in 1 M H 2 SO 4 ), good cycling stability (100% capacitance retention after 10000 cycles in 1 M H 2 SO 4 ) and rate performance. Therefore, from the respects of environment friendliness and cost effectivity, obtaining heteroatom doped carbons from the nature might be better compared to pyrolyzing heteroatom-containing chemicals.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5431
JournalScientific Reports
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2019

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