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Functionalization of petroleum coke-based mesoporous carbon for synergistically enhanced capacitive performance

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With increasing output of petroleum coke, the value-added exploitation of petroleum coke has become a tough problem. Preparing porous carbons is a traditional way to the value-added exploitation of petroleum coke. Here, we used a facile and efficient hard-templating strategy to synthesize mesoporous carbon with high surface area from petroleum coke. N2 adsorption analyses show that the BET specific area and pore volume of the carbons can reach up to 864 m2/g and 1.37 cm3/g, respectively. To utilize the abundant mesopores of the carbons, anthraquinone-modified mesoporous carbon was tested as an electrode material for supercapacitor applications. Electrochemical measurements demonstrated that the specific capacitance reached up to 366 F/g at the current density of 1 A/g, indicating a promising prospect of using this carbon in electrochemical energy-storage field. More importantly, the strategy used in this work can be easily modified to prepare other nano-carbon materials from petroleum coke.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (21476264), Distinguished Young Scientist Foundation of Shandong Province (JQ201215), Taishan Scholar Foundation (ts20130929) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (15CX05029A, 15CX08009A), Graduate Student Innovation Project of China University of Petroleum (East China) (YCXJ2016082).

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    Jufeng Huang, Wei Xing, Youhe Wang & Qingzhong Xue

  2. Department of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, 23200, Pakistan

    Fazle Subhan

  3. School of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, 266580, People’s Republic of China

    Xiuli Gao, Peng Bai, Zhen Liu & Zifeng Yan

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Huang, J., Xing, W., Subhan, F. et al. Functionalization of petroleum coke-based mesoporous carbon for synergistically enhanced capacitive performance. Journal of Materials Research 32, 1248–1257 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2017.36

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