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A direct and low-cost approach to synthesizing SiC/C foams from renewable sources for energy storage applications

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A direct, low-cost methodology for the fabrication of porous SiC/C foams was developed, based on the foam replica technique, using sucrose and tetraethyl orthosilicate as precursor materials. The resulting highly porous structures contained up to 96% SiC, showing a specific capacitance of 43.65 F/g, a specific energy density of 1.51 Wh/kg, and a power density of 35.16 W/kg at 0.14 A/g. Most interestingly, these foams exhibited a wide potential stability window (2 V), a unique trait for carbonaceous materials, which we believe had not been previously reported, and therefore, warrants further investigation for supercapacitor applications, such as electric double-layer capacitors.

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We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión (VIE) at Universidad Industrial de Santander.

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    Mayra Bayona-Becerra, Jhon Aceros-Cabezas, Viviana Güiza-Argüello & Sergio Blanco

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Bayona-Becerra, M., Aceros-Cabezas, J., Güiza-Argüello, V. et al. A direct and low-cost approach to synthesizing SiC/C foams from renewable sources for energy storage applications. MRS Communications 13, 240–247 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-023-00335-4

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