Journal
COGENT ENGINEERING
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS
DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2020.1748962
Keywords
coconut shell; hard carbon; supercapacitor; graphene-like; renewable biomass
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- Kementerian Riset, Teknologi dan Pendidikan Tinggi [713/PKS/ITS/2019]
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High-surface area carbon with porous structure can provide a large electrical-double layer as energy storage in supercapacitors. Herein, porous graphene-like materials with high-surface area were prepared from renewable coconut shell charcoal via KOH activation followed by oxidation in a harsh environment using a modified-Hummer method. Using the method, the surface area of the treated coconut shell charcoal increased significantly from about 189.97 m(2)/g to 642.45 m(2)/g with a pore diameter of approximately 5 nm. As expected, the increase in surface area increased the capacitance significantly, by up to 46-fold, from 3.22 to 148.20 F/g. These results demonstrated that the low cost renewable porous graphene-like material prepared from coconut shell charcoals is promising for use as electrode material for supercapacitor.
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