Journal
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & FUELS
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 499-507Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8se00449h
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51462020]
- Foundation for Innovation Groups of Basic Research in Gansu Province [1606RJIA322]
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The utilization of electrode materials with high-performance and low-cost is crucial for the development of electrochemical energy storage devices. Waste engine oil is a toxic and hazardous waste; it is estimated that about 45 million tons of waste engine oil are generated per year worldwide. Herein, waste engine oil was first recycled as a raw material to fabricate hierarchical porous carbon nanosheets. The obtained material exhibited high specific surface area (up to 2276 m(2) g(-1)), hierarchical porous structure, and excellent capacitance performance. Its specific capacitance reached 352 F g(-1), and more than 87.7% of initial capacitance was retained when the current density was increased from 0.5 to 20 A g(-1). In addition, no apparent capacitance drop was observed after 5000 charge and discharge cycles. The superior capacitance performance than that of the commercial activated carbon and most of the waste-derived porous carbons, cheap and readily available raw materials, and environmental benefit due to proper recycling of the hazardous waste make the reported hierarchical porous carbon nanosheet a promising energy storage material.
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