Structure and Electrochemical Performance of Hollow Tube Activated Carbon Prepared from Cotton as Electrode Material for Electric Double Layer Capacitor

作     者：LI Xinping LI Jianling YAN Gang ZHU Zhixun KANG Feiyu 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 P. R. China Lab of Advanced Materials Department of Materials Science and Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 P R. China 

出 版 物：《Chemical Research in Chinese Universities》 (高等学校化学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第32卷第1期

页      面：82-89页

核心收录：

学科分类：081702[工学-化学工艺] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 080502[工学-材料学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51372021 51172023) 

主　　题：Cotton Hollow tube-like Activated carbon Electric double layer capacitor 

摘      要：Hollow tube-like activated carbon（HTAC） was fabricated by a simple and efficient carbonization method with cotton as carbon precursor activated by KOH without any template. The activation time from 0 to 90 min showed no significant effect on the micro-morphology, but greatly influenced the specific surface area and electro- chemical performance. In the end, it was found that the sample activated for 60 min（HTAC-60） has a higher specific surface area of 2600 m2/g, a larger pore volume of 1.52 cm3/g and a greater specific capacitance of 483 F/g at a current density of 0.2 A/g in 1 mol/L H2SO4. Moreover, the sample HTAC-60 shows excellent cycle stability（only 12.2% loss after 5000 cycles） and a high energy density of 67.1 or 37.2 ***-1 at a power density of 200 or 1000 W/kg, respectively, operated in a voltage range of 0--1.0 V in 1 mol/L H2SO4. The results indicate that cotton can potentially be used as a raw material for producing low cost and high performance activated carbon electrode materials for electric double layer capacitor.