title: A Facile and Low-Cost Route to Heteroatom Doped Porous Carbon Derived from Broussonetia Papyrifera Bark with Excellent Supercapacitance and CO2 Capture Performance.
abstract: In this work, we present a facile and low-cost approach to synthesize heteroatom doped porous carbon via hydrothermal treatment of stem bark of broussonetia papyrifera (BP) as the biomass precursor in diluted sulfuric acid, and following thermal activation by KOH at 800 °C. The morphology, structure and textural property of the prepared porous carbon (PC) are investigated by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, N2 sorption isotherms, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The porous carbon possesses a high BET surface area of 1759 m(2) g(-1) and an average pore size of 3.11 nm as well as hetero-oxygen (9.09%) and nitrogen (1.7%) doping. Such porous carbon shows outstanding capacitive performances of 416 F g(-1) and 300 F g(-1) in three and two-electrode systems, respectively. As a solid-state adsorbent, the obtained porous carbon has an excellent CO2 adsorption capacity at ambient pressures of up to 6.71 and 4.45 mmol g(-1) at 0 and 25 °C, respectively. The results present one novel precursor-synthesis route for facile large-scale production of high performance porous carbon for a variety of great applications including energy storage and CO2 capture.
authors.affiliation: Hunan Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Energy Materials and Devices, Department of Physics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, Hunan Province, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Tongye
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Hunan Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Energy Materials and Devices, Department of Physics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, Hunan Province, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Hunan Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Energy Materials and Devices, Department of Physics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, Hunan Province, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Xiaolin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, Hunan Province, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, Hunan Province, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Huaming
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D031623:Broussonetia / Q000737:chemistry*; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D024301:Plant Bark / Q000737:chemistry*; D016062:Porosity
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D002244:Carbon