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An economical green route synthesis of carbon spheres derived from kitchen biowastes for supercapacitor application

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The increasing energy demands and worsened environmental conditions paved the way for developing materials that can be recycled easily. The huge amount of kitchen bio-waste thrown in the open environment has also led to environmental deterioration. Herein, we have elucidated a facile green route for the synthesis of carbon spheres from kitchen wastes by hydrothermal method. The XRD and FTIR confirmed the presence of carbon spheres while FESEM with EDX depicted the carbon spheres' spherical morphology and elemental composition. BET analysis revealed that the increase in pore volume resulted in a decrease in the electrochemical performance. The electrochemical performances of carbon spheres have been compared through CV, GCD, and EIS studies. Potato peel-derived carbon spheres (P2) showed maximum specific capacitance i.e., 1987.5 F/g at 0.2 A/g current density in 2 M H2SO4 electrolytic solution. The carbon spheres also showed good capacitance retention capability up to 6000 cycles, out of which P2 showed maximum retention capacity (91.66%), inferring their excellent potential as future electrode materials for supercapacitor applications.

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The authors are thankful to IUAC for extending the FE-SEM facility funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) under the Geochronology project [MoES/P.O.(Seismic)8(09)-Geochron/2012]. We would like to acknowledge the DST-FIST project (SR/FST/PSI-160/2010) for the support of the XRD D2-phaser system at AINT, AUUP, Noida. We would also like to acknowledge Dr. Sanjay Dhakate from CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India for helping us in BET measurements.

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One of the authors, RS would like to acknowledge the UGC-DAE-CSR, Indore, MP, India [CSR-IC-ISUM-01/CSR-327/2021–2022/597] for the financial support for this research work.

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  1. Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

    Mahima Sheoran, Rohit Sharma & Om Prakash Sinha

  2. Applied Sciences and Humanities Department, Lloyd Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, India

    Swati Chaudhary

  3. Inter University Accelerator Center, New Delhi, India

    Anit Dawar & Sunil Ojha

  4. Amity Institute of Advanced Research and Studies (Material and Devices), Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

    Abhishek Verma

  5. Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India

    Anurag Srivastava

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MS: Methodology, Investigation, Visualization, Data Analysis, Writing—original draft. RS: Experimental Investigation, Writing—review & editing. SC: Review & editing. Anit Dawar, SO: SEM Investigation. AV: EDX Investigation. Anurag Srivastava: Review & editing. OPS: Conceptualisation, Visualization, Writing—review & editing.

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Sheoran, M., Sharma, R., Chaudhary, S. et al. An economical green route synthesis of carbon spheres derived from kitchen biowastes for supercapacitor application. Appl. Phys. A 129, 549 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-023-06811-x

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