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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 4, Issue 72, Pages 38213-38221Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra03888f
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- U.S. Department of Energy
- Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U. S. Department of Energy
- Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy
- School of Engineering, Widener University
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Morphologically tailored pyrolysis-recovered carbon black is utilized in lithium-ion battery anodes with improved capacity as a potential solution for adding value to waste tire-rubber-derived materials. Micronized tire rubber was digested in a hot oleum bath to yield a sulfonated rubber slurry that was then filtered, washed, and compressed into a solid cake. Carbon was recovered from the modified rubber cake by pyrolysis in a nitrogen atmosphere. The chemical pretreatment of rubber produced a carbon monolith with higher yield than that from the control (a fluffy tire-rubber-derived carbon black). The carbon monolith showed a very small volume fraction of pores of widths 3-5 nm, prominent nanoporosity (pore width < 2 nm), reduced specific surface area, and an ordered assembly of graphitic domains. Electrochemical studies revealed that the recovered-carbon-based anode had a higher reversible capacity than that of graphite. Anodes made with a sulfonated tire-rubber-derived carbon and a control tire-rubber-derived carbon exhibited an initial coulombic efficiency of 71% and 45%, respectively. The reversible capacity of the cell with the sulfonated tire rubber-derived carbon as the anode was 390 mA h g(-1) after 100 cycles, with nearly 100% coulombic efficiency. Our success in producing a higher performance carbon material from waste tire rubber for potential use in energy storage applications adds a new avenue to tire rubber recycling.
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