Journal Papers

Ling, Zheng

Ling, Z (reprint author), Dalian Univ Technol, Liaoning Key Lab Energy Mat & Chem Engn, State Key Lab Fine Chem, Sch Chem Engn,Carbon Res Lab, Dalian 116024, Peoples R China.

Yu, Chang,Fan, Xiaoming,Liu, Shaohong,Yang, Juan,Zhang, Mengdi,Wang, Gang,Xiao, Nan,Qiu, Jieshan

2015-09-18

NANOTECHNOLOGY

SCIE、EI、PubMed、Scopus

J

26

37

374003

0957-4484

supercapacitor; carbon; biomass

A chitosan (CS) based nitrogen doped carbon cryogel with a high specific surface area (SSA) has been directly synthesized via a combined process of freeze-drying and high-temperature carbonization without adding any activation agents. The as-made carbon cryogel demonstrates an SSA up to 1025 m(2) g(-1) and a high nitrogen content of 5.98 wt%, while its counterpart derived from CS powder only shows an SSA of 26 m(2) g(-1). Freeze-drying is a determining factor for the formation of carbon cryogel with a high SSA, where the CS powder with a size of ca. 200 mu m is transformed into the sheet-shaped cryogel with a thickness of 5-8 mu m. The as-made carbon cryogel keeps the sheet-shaped structure and the abundant pores are formed in situ and decorated inside the sheets during carbonization. The carbon cryogel shows significantly enhanced performance as supercapacitor and lithium ion battery electrodes in terms of capacity and rate capability due to its quasi two-dimensional (2D) structure with reduced thickness. The proposed method may provide a simple approach to configure 2D biomass-derived advanced carbon materials for energy storage devices.