Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016)

Cotton-derived carbon fibers with high specific capacitance by ZnCl2 activation for supercapacitor application

Authors
Shuguang Wang, Jie Yu
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Shuguang Wang
Available Online December 2016.
DOI
10.2991/icseee-16.2016.67How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Porous carbon fibers; cotton; supercapacitors; ZnCl2; high specific capacitance
Abstract

Cotton, an inexpensive natural product, was used as a precursor for fabrication of high specific capacitance porous carbon fibers for spercapacitors. Porous carbon fibers with the hollow structure, high surface area of 1620 m2 g-1 and high content of C=O functional group are prepared by one-step carbonization and activation using ZnCl2 as activation agent. The maximum specific capacitance of porous carbon fibers activated at a ZnCl2/cotton mass ratio of 2:1 is measured to be 426.7 F g-1 at a current density 0.6 A g-1. The tubular structure, high surface area, and high content of oxygen functional groups are responsible for the excellent electrochemical performance.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
December 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-278-7
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/icseee-16.2016.67How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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