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Polymer salt-derived carbon-based nanomaterials for high-performance hybrid Li-ion capacitors

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Li-ion capacitors (LICs) combine the merits of supercapacitors and batteries, which are usually fabricated by battery-type anode and supercapacitor-type cathode. The main challenge for LICs is to make kinetics balance between anode and cathode. Herein, we created a LIC based on superabsorbent polymer salt-derived carbon-based nanomaterials. By annealing the Mn2+ adsorbed polymer salt precursor, the obtained MnO/C anode with a high specific surface area of 762 m2 g−1 displays a high capacity of 540 mAh g−1 at 0.1 A g−1 and an excellent capacity retention of 80% after 500 cycles. The hierarchical porous carbon cathode is generated by the combined carbonization and KOH activation techniques, which exhibits an excellent capacitive storage performance. After well-matched capacity and kinetic behavior in both anode and cathode, the LIC possesses a high energy density of 97.3 Wh kg−1 and a superior cycle life with 80% capacity retention after 10000 cycles. This work gives a case study to fabricate high-performance energy storage devices by using environmentally friendly electrodes.

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This work was partly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21471139, and 51402272) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 201822008).

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    Yunpeng Yang, Huanlei Wang, Wei Liu, Jing Shi, Guanghe Dong, Hao Zhang, Dong Li & Gaofei Lu

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Yang, Y., Wang, H., Liu, W. et al. Polymer salt-derived carbon-based nanomaterials for high-performance hybrid Li-ion capacitors. J Mater Sci 54, 7811–7822 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-019-03423-w

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