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Boron-doped nanoporous carbons as promising materials for supercapacitors and hydrogen storage

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Boron-doped carbon nanostructures were obtained via template and bulk synthesis from sucrose in the presence of boric acid. Synthesized B-containing mesoporous materials are characterized by high spatial ordering, developed surface (up to 870 m2/g), and porosity (up to 1.2 cm3/g). The obtained B-doped microporous materials exhibit high interfacial capacitance (up to 0.36 F/m2), which is higher than the available literature data and enables the use of synthesized samples as materials of supercapacitors. The capacity of electric double layer up to 300 F/g using sulfuric acid as the electrolyte was accumulated on microporous B-doped carbons.

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    Nataliya Shcherban, Svitlana Filonenko, Pavel Yaremov, Vyacheslav Dyadyun & Vladimir Ilyin

  2. Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne 9, av A. Savarys, Dijon Cedex, 21078, France

    Igor Bezverkhyy

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Shcherban, N., Filonenko, S., Yaremov, P. et al. Boron-doped nanoporous carbons as promising materials for supercapacitors and hydrogen storage. J Mater Sci 52, 1523–1533 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-016-0447-x

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