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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 5, Issue 77, Pages 63000-63011Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra06661a
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- Department of Science and Technology (Government of India)
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Nitrogen- and oxygen-containing activated carbons have been synthesized from sucrose and ammonium nitrate (AN) by carbonization at different temperatures (600-900 degrees C) under a flow of nitrogen gas with steam. Another set of carbons has been synthesized without AN. The carbons have been characterized using X-ray diffractometry (XRD), elemental analysis, solid-state C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA), di-nitrogen adsorption-desorption, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. Nitrogen from AN has been found to be incorporated into carbon samples. Electrochemical performances of the carbons have been studied in 1 M sulphuric acid using cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic charge-discharge cycling. The use of AN favors the formation of carbons with higher surface areas and higher graphitic nature. One of the carbons with a BET surface area of 518 m(2) g(-1), a nitrogen content of 3% and an oxygen content of 20.4% shows a specific capacitance of 277 F g(-1). Carbons obtained using AN show better capacitance than the ones obtained without AN. Higher carbonization temperatures favor the formation of carbon with the higher capacitance values.
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