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Simple and green fabrication of a biomass-derived N and O self-doped hierarchical porous carbon via a self-activation route for supercapacitor application

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To meet the increased performance and cost requirements of commercial supercapacitor, a N and O self-doped hierarchical porous carbon is fabricated via a green and simple self-activation route utilizing leaves of wild hollyhock as raw materials. Comparing to commercial activated carbon, the reported material exhibits some marked merits, such as simple and green fabrication process, low cost, and superior capacitance performance. The specific surface area of the obtained N and O co-doped hierarchical porous carbon arrives 954 m2 g−1, and the content of the self-doped nitrogen and oxygen reaches 2.64 at.% and 7.38 at.%, respectively. The specific capacitance of the obtained material reaches 226 F g−1 while the specific capacitance of the symmetric supercapacitor arrives 47.3 F g−1. Meanwhile, more than 90.3% of initial specific capacitance is kept under a current density of 20 A g−1, and no arresting degradation is observed for capacitance after 5000 times cycle, perfectly demonstrating the excellent cycle and rate capability of the obtained material. The obtained N and O co-doped hierarchical porous carbon are expected to be an ideal substitution for commercial activated carbon.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 51462020 and 21867015).

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Yang, B., Zhang, D., He, J. et al. Simple and green fabrication of a biomass-derived N and O self-doped hierarchical porous carbon via a self-activation route for supercapacitor application. Carbon Lett. 30, 709–719 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-020-00143-z

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