A Solvent-Free Synthesis of Lignin-Derived Renewable Carbon with Tunable Porosity for Supercapacitor Electrodes

Ho, Hoi Chun; Nguyen, Ngoc A.; Meek, Kelly M.; Alonso, David Martin; Hakim, Sikander H.; Naskar, Amit K.

doi:10.1002/cssc.201800929

Title: A Solvent-Free Synthesis of Lignin-Derived Renewable Carbon with Tunable Porosity for Supercapacitor Electrodes

Journal Article · Mon Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · ChemSusChem

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201800929· OSTI ID:1474617

Ho, Hoi Chun ^[1];

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Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). The Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Carbon and Composite Group, Materials Science and Technology Division
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Carbon and Composite Group, Materials Science and Technology Division
Glucan Biorenewables LLC, Madison, WI (United States)

Synthesis of multiphase materials from lignin, a biorefinery coproduct, offers limited success owing to the inherent difficulty in controlling dispersion of these renewable hyperbranched macromolecules in the product or its intermediates. Effective use of the chemically reactive functionalities in lignin, however, enables tuning morphologies of the materials. Here in this study, we bind lignin oligomers with a rubbery macromolecule followed by thermal crosslinking to form a carbon precursor with phase contrasted morphology at submicron scale. The solvent-free mixing is conducted in a high-shear melt mixer. With this, the carbon precursor is further modified with potassium hydroxide for a single-step carbonization to yield activated carbon with tunable pore structure. A typical precursor with 90 % lignin yields porous carbon with 2120 m² g^-1 surface area and supercapacitor with 215 F g^-1 capacitance. Lastly, the results show a simple route towards manufacturing carbon-based energy-storage materials, eliminating the need for conventional template synthesis.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Advanced Manufacturing Office

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1474617

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1462134

Journal Information:: ChemSusChem, Vol. 11, Issue 17; ISSN 1864-5631

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