3D honeycomb-like carbon foam synthesized with biomass buckwheat flour for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes

Jing Huang; Jinggao Wu; Fangyin Dai; Chang Ming Li

doi:10.1039/c9cc03039e

3D honeycomb-like carbon foam synthesized with biomass buckwheat flour for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jul 30;55(62):9168-9171. doi: 10.1039/c9cc03039e.

Authors

Jing Huang¹, Jinggao Wu, Fangyin Dai, Chang Ming Li

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, P. R. China.

PMID: 31305805
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc03039e

Abstract

A facile, one-step carbonization of buckwheat flour is innovated to synthesize honeycomb-like porous carbon, which exhibits specific capacitance (767 F g-1 at 1 A g-1) and stability with a retention of up to 92.6% after 10 000 cycles.