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Preparation and Capacitance of Copper-Doped Activated Carbon From Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) Precursor

  • Ma Zhanling ,
  • Song Yanfang ,
  • Xia Yongyao ,
  • He Junpo
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  • a State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433;
    b Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433

Received date: 2014-04-16

  Online published: 2014-05-30

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Project supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Nos. 2008AA032102, 2011CB605701).

Abstract

Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) is a widely used precursor for activated carbon using KOH as the activation agent. In the present work, we prepared activated carbon with high BET surface (2241 m2/g) by optimizing the activation temperature and the dosage of KOH. On this basis, we obtained PAN-based activated carbon doped with copper. The preparation is through a three-step process: (1) the nucleophilic reaction between nitrile groups and hydroxylamine (NH2OH), introducing multi amino and oximido groups in PAN; (2) complexation of Cu2+ with oximido groups on modified PAN, resulting in a dark green colored complex; (3) carbonization of the complex in the presence of KOH at high temperature. The present method of doping-in-precursor may provides more homogeneous blending of metal in carbon matrix than simple mixing of activated carbon and copper. The copper-doped activated carbon was characterized by XPS, FT-IR and SEM. The doped copper undergoes the Faradic reactions to produce pseudo-capacitance, thus improving the specific capacitance of activated carbon electrodes from 208.3 F/g to 289.7 F/g (0.5 A/g). Nevertheless, the cycle stability of copper-doped activated carbon was lower than that of pure activated carbon after several recharge cycles. This was probably caused by the irreversible Faradic reaction of doped copper.

Cite this article

Ma Zhanling , Song Yanfang , Xia Yongyao , He Junpo . Preparation and Capacitance of Copper-Doped Activated Carbon From Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) Precursor[J]. Acta Chimica Sinica, 2014 , 72(8) : 927 -934 . DOI: 10.6023/A14040286

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