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CARBON
Volume 94, Issue -, Pages 41-52Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.06.028
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- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, MINECO [MAT2012-31651]
- Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
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Highly porous materials with a bimodal pore size distribution in the micro-mesopore range have been produced from biomass by adding melamine to the hydrochar/KOH mixture used in the activation process. These carbons are characterized by BET surface areas in excess of similar to 3300 m(2) g(-1) and a porosity equally distributed between micropores and mesopores. The use of melamine in the synthesis process not only extends the pore size distribution into the mesopore region, but leads to the incorporation of a certain amount of nitrogen atoms into the carbon framework. These materials combine high ion adsorption capacities (micropores) and enhanced ion-transport kinetics (mesopores) leading to an outstanding capacitive performance in ionic liquid-based supercapacitors. Thus, they have specific capacitances > 160 F g(-1) at 1 A g(-1) and > 140 F g(-1) at 60 A g(-1) in both pure ionic liquid and in acetonitrile-diluted ionic liquid, enabling these materials to store up to a maximum of ca. 60Wh kg(-1) in both kinds of electrolytes and deliver ca. 20Wh kg(-1) at similar to 42 kW kg(-1) (discharge time ca. 2 s) in pure ionic liquid and similar to 25-30Wh kg(-1) at similar to 97-100 kW kg(-1) (discharge time similar to 1 s) in acetonitrile-diluted ionic liquid. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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