<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>There is a general consensus to develop renewable energy storage and conversion technologies to replace fossil fuel energy for sustainable development. Currently, the development of high performance energy storage and conversion devices is an important step on the road to alternative energy technologies. With a special focus on the upgradation of waste to valuable energy, this paper presents an effective synthetic method that utilizes waste newspapers as the precursor to prepare the activated carbon electrodes by the pyrolysis and chemical activation processes. The amorphous nature and surface morphology of the carbon samples were confirmed by XRD and SEM analysis, respectively. Activated waste newspaper carbon (AWNP) showed good electrochemical properties at 800 °C and its specific capacitance at a scan rate of 2 mV/s was found to be 380 F/g. It is important to mention that the source of the raw material is cost effective and suitable for green technology.</p></abstract>

There is a general consensus to develop renewable energy storage and conversion technologies to replace fossil fuel energy for sustainable development. Currently, the development of high performance energy storage and conversion devices is an important step on the road to alternative energy technologies. With a special focus on the upgradation of waste to valuable energy, this paper presents an effective synthetic method that utilizes waste newspapers as the precursor to prepare the activated carbon electrodes by the pyrolysis and chemical activation processes. The amorphous nature and surface morphology of the carbon samples were confirmed by XRD and SEM analysis, respectively. Activated waste newspaper carbon (AWNP) showed good electrochemical properties at 800 °C and its specific capacitance at a scan rate of 2 mV/s was found to be 380 F/g. It is important to mention that the source of the raw material is cost effective and suitable for green technology.

Structural and electrochemical investigation of waste newspaper based electrodes for supercapacitor applications

Catalysis and Nanomaterials Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Loyola College, Chennai 600 034, India

Materials Division, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University, Chennai Campus, Chennai 600 127, India

Materials Science-Poland

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There is a general consensus to develop renewable energy storage and conversion technologies to replace fossil fuel energy for sustainable development....

Sample	$S_{B e t}^{a}$ ${\rm{S}}_{{\rm{Bet}}}^{\rm{a}}$ [m²/g]	$S_{m i c}^{b}$ ${\rm{S}}_{{\rm{mic}}}^{\rm{b}}$ [m²/g]	$S_{m e s o}^{c}$ ${\rm{S}}_{{\rm{meso}}}^{\rm{c}}$ [m²/g]	$V_{T o t a l}^{d}$ ${\rm{V}}_{{\rm{Total}}}^{\rm{d}}$ [cm³/g]	$V_{M i c r o}^{e}$ ${\rm{V}}_{{\rm{Micro}}}^{\rm{e}}$ [cm³/g]	$V_{M e s o}^{f}$ ${\rm{V}}_{{\rm{Meso}}}^{\rm{f}}$ [cm³/g]	V_Micro/V_Total [%]	V_Meso/V_Total [%]	$D_{p}^{g}$ ${\rm{D}}_{\rm{p}}^{\rm{g}}$ [nm]	Production yield of carbon [%]
PCC	333.06	231.01	105.03	0.59	0.54	0.05	91.5	0.85	7.9	63.00
AWNP 600	621.25	371.39	250.07	0.96	0.77	0.19	80.2	19.7	7.8	55.66
AWNP 700	832.37	493.56	339.60	1.11	0.84	0.27	75.6	24.3	6.9	49.79
AWNP 800	1104.8	563.71	503.39	1.30	0.82	0.48	63.0	36.9	4.8	45.89

Characteristics	Lab made supercapacitor
operating temperature range	-35 °C to +70 °C
Capacitance	100 F to 380 F
Rated voltage	1200 v to 3000 v(DC current) Protection against overvoltage
Tolerance	±10% to ±15 %
Dissipation factor	+0.5 × 10⁻³ (measured at 100 Hz and 25 °C)
Life expectancy	10,000 hours at 85 °C (life span of at least 20 years)
Environment friendly	Green product

Structural and electrochemical investigation of waste newspaper based electrodes for supercapacitor applications

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Jun 27, 2016

Page range: 302 - 314

Received: Jun 11, 2015

Accepted: May 13, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/msp-2016-0064

© Wroclaw University of Technology

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Sample code, surface area, pore volume, average pore diameter, and production yield of waste newspaper derived carbon.

Characteristics of lab made supercapacitor.