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Paulownia tomentosa derived porous carbon with enhanced sodium storage

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Porous carbon derived from biomass materials with enrich, low cost, clean, and renewable merits, exhibits various physical and chemical properties. So, it is of great significance to rationally utilize biomass materials for producing porous carbon with low cost to reduce overusing fossil fuel and environmental pollution. In this report, porous carbon has been fabricated using fruits shells of the Paulownia tomentosa by a facile method of KOH-activation. The as-obtained porous carbon containing a larger number of micropores and slight mesopores possesses a high specific surface area (1914.4 m2/g) and well hierarchical porosity. As the anode for sodium ion batteries, the porous carbon sample displays superior cycling stability and rate capability, delivering a reversible specific capacity of 179 mA h/g at 50 mA/g after 100 cycles and a discharge specific capacity of 100 mA h/g at 1 A/g.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51572194 and 51672189), The Key Project of the Tianjin Science & Technology Support Program (17YFZCGX00550), and Academic Innovation Funding of Tianjin Normal University (52XC1404).

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  1. Tianjin International Joint Research Centre of Surface Technology for Energy Storage Materials, College of Physics and Materials Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China

    Pan Wang, Xiaojia Li, Xifei Li, Dejun Li & Xueliang Sun

  2. Institute of Advanced Clean Energy, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, 710048, China

    Pan Wang & Xiaojia Li

  3. Institute of Advanced Electrochemical Energy, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, 710048, China

    Xifei Li & Hui Shan

  4. Nanomaterials and Energy Lab, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Western University, London, Ontario, N6A 5B9, Canada

    Xueliang Sun

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Wang, P., Li, X., Li, X. et al. Paulownia tomentosa derived porous carbon with enhanced sodium storage. Journal of Materials Research 33, 1236–1246 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2017.452

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