Citation: Shu-Juan ZHENG, Jia-Xin LI, Wen-Shi ZHONG, Wei JIANG, Geng-Shen HU. Preparation and electrochemical performance for supercapacitors of chitosan-based porous carbon materials[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2023, 39(3): 492-500. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2023.019 shu

Preparation and electrochemical performance for supercapacitors of chitosan-based porous carbon materials

Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, China

Corresponding author: Wei JIANG, jiangwei@zjnu.edu.cn Geng-Shen HU, gshu@zjnu.edu.cn
Received Date: 7 October 2022
Revised Date: 22 December 2022

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Nitrogen-containing mesoporous carbon with different specific surface areas and pore volumes were prepared by using colloidal silica spheres as the hard template, chitosan as a carbon precursor, and ZnCl₂ as activation agent. The morphology, surface area, and pore structure of the prepared carbons were characterized by different techniques. The influence of the ratio of silica to chitosan and the use of ZnCl₂ on the pore volume and surface area of porous carbon materials were explored. It was found that the nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon (CSi-1.75) without using activation agent showed lowest surface area but the pore volume can reach up to 4.53 cm³·g^-1. The carbon (CSi-1.75-Zn) prepared by using ZnCl₂ as activation agent, had the larger surface area (1 032 m²·g ^-1) and the pore volume decreased to 1.99 cm³·g^-1 and had more pyridine-nitrogen and pyrrole-nitrogen. In the three electrodes with 6.0 mol·L^-1 KOH as the electrolyte, when the current density was 0.5 A·g^-1, the specific capacitance of CSi-1.75-Zn can reach 344 F·g ^-1, while the specific capacitance of CSi-1.75 was only 255 F·g^-1. This indicates that the surface area of the carbon material had the greatest impact on the supercapacitive performance. The capacitance contribution analysis results showed that both the double-layer capacitance and pseudo capacitance of CSi-1.75-Zn were improved compared with CSi-1.75, indicating that larger specific surface area and more pyridine-nitrogen and pyrrole-nitrogen are conducive to improving the capacitance of carbon materials.
- supercapacitors,
- mesoporous carbon,
- pore volume,
- surface area
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