Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 226, Issue -, Pages 202-209Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2012.11.014
Keywords
Calcium carbide-derived carbon; Activation; Electrolyte; Supercapacitors
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51272221, 51072173, 21203161]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [20094301110005]
- Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education [11C1210]
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Porous calcium carbide-derived carbon (CCDC) has been prepared by one-step route from CaC2 in a freshly prepared chlorine environment at lower temperature, and following activated by ZnCl2 to get activated CCDC. The performances of the supercapacitors based on activated CCDC as electrode active material in aqueous KOH, K2SO4, KCI and KNO3 electrolytes are studied by cyclic voltammetry, constant current charged/discharged, cyclic life and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. It has been found that the supercapacitor using 6 M KOH as electrolyte shows an energy density of 8.3 Wh kg(-1) and a power density of 1992W kg(-1) based on the total weight of the electrode active materials with a voltage range 0 V-1 V. Meanwhile, the specific capacitance of the supercapacitor in 6 M KOH electrolyte is 68 F g(-1) at the scan rate of 1mV s(-1) in the voltage range of 0 V-1 V, the charge-transfer resistance is extremely low and the relaxation time is the least of all. The supercapacitor also exhibits a good cycling performance and keeps 95% of initial capacity over 5000 cycles. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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