Issue 25, 2013
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A

High performance porous carbon through hard–soft dual templates for supercapacitor electrodes†

Xiang Ying Chen,*a   Chong Chen,a   Zhong Jie Zhangb  and  Dong Hua Xiea  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemical Engineering, Anhui Key Laboratory of Controllable Chemistry Reaction & Material Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui 230009, P. R. China
E-mail: cxyhfut@gmail.com
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b College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environment-friendly Polymer Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui 230039, P. R. China
E-mail: zhangzj0603@126.com

Abstract

A hard–soft dual templates method has been developed for the first time to prepare porous carbons by the direct carbonization of phenol formaldehyde resins (PFs), Zn(NO3)2·6H2O and polyvinyl butyral (PVB) at 1000 °C under Ar gas, in which PFs serve as the carbon source. More importantly, Zn(NO3)2·6H2O and PVB acting as hard and soft template, respectively, can be readily removed through the evaporation process, resulting in pure carbon without any post-treatment, commonly employed. The PF-Zn-PVB-1:5:1 sample has a total BET surface area of 864 m2 g−1, and a total pore volume of 0.76 cm3 g−1. An electrode based on the porous carbons exhibits the high specific capacitances of 174.7 F g−1 and 152.8 F g−1 at the current densities of 0.5 and 1.0 A g−1, respectively. It also exhibits a superior rate capability, with high specific capacitance retention at ca. 63.1% at a high current density of 20 A g−1. Significantly, about 96.2% is retained after charging and discharging for 10 000 cycles, revealing its long-term electrochemical stability. The hard–soft dual templates method proposed in the present work is straightforward and effective, and can be utilized to synthesize porous carbons on a large scale for the application of high performance supercapacitors.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3TA10841D
Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Feb 2013
Accepted
09 Apr 2013
First published
09 Apr 2013

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013,1, 7379-7383

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High performance porous carbon through hard–soft dual templates for supercapacitor electrodes

X. Y. Chen, C. Chen, Z. J. Zhang and D. H. Xie, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, 1, 7379 DOI: 10.1039/C3TA10841D

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