High porous carbon nanofiber derived from lignosulfonate material

Abstract

In this study, electrospinning technology, iodine treatment, thermal stabilizing, and carbonization processing were applied to produce lignosulfonate-based carbon nanofibers. The porous structure of the produced lignosulfonate-based carbon nanofibers primarily contained mesopores and a relatively small amount of micropores. Moreover, the increasing amount of sodium lignosulfonate (SLS) as lignin source was also studied. The diameter of fibre was impacted by the additional of SLS that may cause by the alkali content of SLS itself. In electrospun nanofiber phase, the presence of SLS reduce the specific surface area, but contrary increase the specific surface area after the nanofibers were carbonized into carbon nanofiber. Lignosulfonate-based activated carbon fibres can be used as a highly efficient adsorption and filtration material, and further development of its applications would be valuable.