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Porous carbon materials derived from areca palm leaves for high performance symmetrical solid-state supercapacitors

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Areca palm leaves derived porous carbon material as the electrode for symmetrical solid-state supercapacitors (SSCs). The areca palm leaves biomass was processed using a fast carbonization method followed by in situ chemical activation. The structures and compositions of these biomass-derived carbon materials were characterized using X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, respectively. One of the biomass-derived porous carbon materials, AR2, was a lightweight carbon material that possessed a large surface area of 876 m2 g–1. Electrochemical studies revealed that AR2 possessed a high specific capacitance of 262 F g–1 at a scan rate of 5 mV s–1. We fabricated symmetrical SSCs featuring these carbon material as major (80 wt%) components of the electrodes and poly(vinyl alcohol)–Li2SO4 as gel polymer electrolyte. The optimal supercapacitor (SAR2) involving AR2 exhibited a specific capacitance of 132 F g–1 at a current density of 0.5 A g–1 and an energy density of 10.3 W h kg–1 at a power density of 375 W kg–1, and durability of retaining 92% of its initial capacitance after 5000 cycles—performance that is the excellent values reported for devices featuring derived from biomass.

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K. H. Wei thanks the Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science of National Chiao Tung University [from the Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan] and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST 106-2221-E-009-132-MY3) for financial support.

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    Phuoc-Anh Le, Van-Truong Nguyen, Sumanta Kumar Sahoo & Kung-Hwa Wei

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Prof. KHW and Prof. TYT supervised the research project. All the experiments were designed and performed by PAL and he also wrote the manuscript. NVT, SKS helped to analyze structural measurement of biomass-derived carbon materials. All authors discussed and commented on the manuscript.

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Le, PA., Nguyen, VT., Sahoo, S.K. et al. Porous carbon materials derived from areca palm leaves for high performance symmetrical solid-state supercapacitors. J Mater Sci 55, 10751–10764 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-04693-5

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