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Enhanced electrochemical performance of olive stones-derived activated carbon by silica coating for supercapacitor applications

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Porous activated carbon (AC) was successfully elaborated from olive stones and valued as an electrode material for electrical double-layer supercapacitors. The activated carbon surface was subsequently coated by silica to improve its physico-chemical and electrochemical properties. The treated activated carbon surface (AC-Si) exhibited a meso-microporous nature. From electrochemical investigations, an improvement of the capacitive behavior was demonstrated after the silica coating. When the bare activated carbon is used as electrode materials, the specific capacitance delivered by the assembled symmetric supercapacitor is 11 F g−1 at a current density of 0.5 A g−1 for an operating voltage of 0.6 V. However, the supercapacitor based on carbon–silica electrodes showed an obvious enhancement of the specific capacitance up to 141 F g−1 at 0.5 A g−1 and operated over a larger cell voltage of 1.25 V. For the AC-Si//AC-Si device, the exhibited specific energy is 30.6 Wh kg−1 and the specific power is 1661 W kg−1 at a current density of 0.5 A g−1. Therefore, the activated carbon derived from olive stones and coated by silica is a promising electrode material for supercapacitor devices.

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This research was supported by The Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The authors thank Mr. Mounir Hajji for chemical resources.

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  1. Laboratoire de Valorisation des Matériaux Utiles, Technopole Borj Cedria, Centre National de Recherches en Sciences des Matériaux (CNRSM), Soliman, Tunisia

    Mouna Jaouadi & Ahmed Hichem Hamzaoui

  2. Institut National de Recherche et d’Analyse Physico-Chimique (INRAP), Biotechpole Sidi Thabet, 2020, Sidi Thabet, Tunisia

    Moomen Marzouki & Ouassim Ghodbane

  3. Laboratoire des Matériaux Utiles (LR15INRAP01), INRAP, Sidi Thabet, Tunisia

    Ouassim Ghodbane

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Jaouadi, M., Marzouki, M., Hamzaoui, A.H. et al. Enhanced electrochemical performance of olive stones-derived activated carbon by silica coating for supercapacitor applications. J Appl Electrochem 52, 125–137 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10800-021-01623-4

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