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Chemistry and Industry of Forest Products ›› 2020, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (1): 61-67.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2417.2020.01.009

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Preparation of Graphene Modified Coconut Shell Activated Carbon Composite and Its Electrochemical Performance

Yuxuan LIU1,2,Dipan XUAN1,Jiajia LI3,Shuirong LI1,Haiyong TANG3,Zhifeng ZHENG1,*()   

  1. 1. Fujian Provincial Engineering and Research Center of Clean and High-valued Technologies for Biomass; Fujian Provincial Industry Technologies Development Base for New Energy; Xiamen Key Laboratory for High-valued Conversion Technology of Agricultural Biomass; College of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
    2. National-local Joint Engineering Research Center for Highly-efficient Utilization Technology of Forest Biomass Resources, Key Laboratory for Highly-efficient Utilization of Forest Biomass Resources in the Southwest China, National Forestry and Grassland Administration; Yunnan Provincial International Joint Research Center for Bioenergy, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
    3. Jiangsu Mulinsen Activated Carbon Co., Ltd., Nanjing 210047, China
  • Received:2019-09-09 Online:2020-02-28 Published:2020-03-06
  • Contact: Zhifeng ZHENG E-mail:zhifeng.zheng@xmu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    国家自然科学基金资助项目(31870570);国家自然科学基金资助项目(31670599)

Abstract:

Steam activated carbon (AC) was prepared by using coconut shell as raw material, followed by using hydrothermal method and ethanol and water as solvent to prepare capacitance super-capacitor (GAC1-GAC5) with the mass ratios of AC and graphene(GR) 90:0, 90:5, 90:54, 90:90 and 54:90. By nitrogen adsorption-desorption, XRD and SEM methods, the pore structure and surface morphology of activated carbon were characterized. Comparison of different composite capacitance ratio super-capacitor electrode material was analyzed by cyclic voltammetry(CV), galvanostatic charge-discharge(GCD) method. The experimental results showed that the specific surface area of coconut shell activated carbon was 2 482 m2/g, and its pore diameter was mainly distributed at 2-4 nm, with the pore volume as 1.33 cm3/g, specific capacitance was 85 F/g in 6 mol/L KOH electrolyte. Under the conditions of carbonization temperature of 800℃, activation temperature of 900℃ and activation time of 1.5 h, the addition of the graphite improved the composite material capacitance up to 186 F/g.

Key words: activated carbon, graphene, supercapacitor, specific capacitance

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