Preparation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Doped Porous Carbon from Watermelon Peel as Supercapacitor Electrode Material
Chi Yang1, Penghui Li1,2, Yumeng Wei1
1College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
Abstract:
The use of green and sustainable biomass-derived compounds to obtain excellent electrochemical properties is important to address growing environmental and energy issues. In this paper, cheap and abundant watermelon peel was used as a raw material to successfully synthesize nitrogen-phosphorus double-doped bio-based porous carbon by a one-step carbonization method and explore it as a renewable carbon source for low-cost energy storage devices. The supercapacitor electrode exhibited a high specific capacity of 135.2 F/g at a current density of 1 A/g in a three-electrode system. A variety of characterization methods and electrochemical tests indicate that porous carbon prepared by this simple method has great potential as electrode materials for supercapacitors.
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