Flax-derived carbon: A highly durable electrode material for electrochemical double-layer supercapacitors

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Abstract

Owing to their low cost, good performance, and high lifetime stability, activated carbons (ACs) with a large surface area rank among the most popular materials deployed in commercially available electrochemical double-layer (EDLC) capacitors. Here, we report a simple two-step synthetic procedure for the preparation of activated carbon from natural flax. Such ACs possess a very high specific surface area (1649 m2 g–1 ) accompanied by a microporous structure with the size of pores below 2 nm. These features are behind the extraordinary electrochemical performance of flax-derived ACs in terms of their high values of specific capacitance (500 F g–1 at a current density of 0.25 A g–1 in the three-electrode setup and 189 F g–1 at a current density of 0.5 A g–1 in two-electrode setup.), high-rate stability, and outstanding lifetime capability (85% retention after 150,000 charging/discharging cycles recorded at the high current density of 5 A g–1 ). These findings demonstrate that flax-based ACs have more than competitive potential compared to standard and commercially available activated carbons.

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Jakubec, P., Bartusek, S., Dvořáček, J. J., Šedajová, V., Kupka, V., & Otyepka, M. (2021). Flax-derived carbon: A highly durable electrode material for electrochemical double-layer supercapacitors. Nanomaterials, 11(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11092229

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