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Nitrogen-doped porous carbon plates derived from fallen camellia flower for electrochemical energy storage

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Nitrogen-doped porous carbon plates have been prepared by simple and cost-effective pyrolysis carbonization of an easily available biomass-fallen camellia flower and followed by alkali activation. As-prepared nitrogen-doped porous carbon (aNPCP3) possesses a high specific surface area of 2318 m2 g−1 and abundant micro/meso-pores. As a result, the aNPCP3 samples have been demonstrated to be electrodes for supercapacitors, displaying a high specific capacitance of 354 F g−1 at a current density of 0.2 A g−1 and excellent cycling stability. Further, the aNPCP3 samples used as sulfur host materials for lithium-sulfur batteries exhibit a high capacity of 1210 mAh g−1 and good cycling stability with a small capacity decay of about 0.1 % per cycle. Interestingly, it is found that their electrochemical performances are dependent on their specific surface area, pore structure, and heteroatom-doping content and type of carbon materials to a large extent. Cheapness, convenient resource, and good performance make these electrode materials displaying huge potential in cost-effective high-performance energy storage devices.

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The work was supported in part by grants from National Nature Science Foundation of China (51402217 and 51420105002), Zhejiang Science and Technology Project (2014C31155), Graduate Innovation Fund of Wenzhou university (3162015034).

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    Daying Guo, Cong Zheng, Wenjuan Deng, Xi’an Chen, Huifang Wei, Menglan Liu & Shaoming Huang

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Guo, D., Zheng, C., Deng, W. et al. Nitrogen-doped porous carbon plates derived from fallen camellia flower for electrochemical energy storage. J Solid State Electrochem 21, 1165–1174 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-016-3474-2

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