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Biomass-derived multi-heteroatom-doped carbon materials for high-performance solid-state symmetric supercapacitors with superior long-term cycling stability

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In order to fabricate high-performance supercapacitors with desirable energy density and excellent cycling stability, this work aimed to synthesize biomass-derived carbon materials with great electrochemical performance, especially with superior long-term cycling stability, via a facile and simple process. Herein, we have fabricated three kinds of biomass-derived multi-heteroatom-doped carbon materials, using laver, soybean milk and soybean milk (Ag+) as the precursors, labeled as LC, SC and Ag-SC, respectively. The three heteroatom-doped carbon materials possessed extremely high cycling performance; after cycling for 50,000 times, the specific capacitances of LC and SC could maintain 119.8% and 96.0%, and the specific capacitance of Ag-SC could maintain 131.1% after cycling for 40,000 times. Additionally, the energy densities of the corresponding solid-state symmetric supercapacitors were 9.5, 6.2 and 6.9 Wh kg−1 at the power density of about 900 W kg−1, respectively, and the specific capacitances could retain 141.5%, 128.9% and 102.2% after 50,000 cycles.

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This project was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51972049, 51672040, 51672013).

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  2. Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

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  3. Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, People’s Republic of China

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Yang, L., Wang, J., Wang, S. et al. Biomass-derived multi-heteroatom-doped carbon materials for high-performance solid-state symmetric supercapacitors with superior long-term cycling stability. Ionics 26, 4141–4151 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-020-03556-y

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