O, N co-doped porous activated carbon from polyvinyl chloride for super capacitors and solar cells application

Pawan Singh Dhapola; Sushant Kumar; Manoj Karakoti; M.Z.A. Yahya; Vinay Deep Punetha; Sandeep Pandey; Faisal Islam Chowdhury; Serguei V. Savilov; Pramod K. Singh

Chemical Physics Impact (Dec 2024)

O, N co-doped porous activated carbon from polyvinyl chloride for super capacitors and solar cells application

Pawan Singh Dhapola,
Sushant Kumar,
Manoj Karakoti,
M.Z.A. Yahya,
Vinay Deep Punetha,
Sandeep Pandey,
Faisal Islam Chowdhury,
Serguei V. Savilov,
Pramod K. Singh

Affiliations

Pawan Singh Dhapola: Center for Solar Cells & Renewable Energy, School of Basic Sciences and Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India; Corresponding author.
Sushant Kumar: Center for Solar Cells & Renewable Energy, School of Basic Sciences and Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India
Manoj Karakoti: Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic 16206, Prague 6, Czech Republic
M.Z.A. Yahya: Faculty of Defence Science and Technology, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) 57000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Vinay Deep Punetha: Centre of Excellence for Research, P Savani University, Gujrat, India; Corresponding author.
Sandeep Pandey: Professor Rajendra Singh Nanosciene and Nanotechnology Centre, Department of Chemistry, DSB Campus, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
Faisal Islam Chowdhury: Department of Chemistry, University of Chittagong, Chattogram, Bangladesh
Serguei V. Savilov: Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1–3 Leninskiye Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia
Pramod K. Singh: Center for Solar Cells & Renewable Energy, School of Basic Sciences and Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India; Corresponding author.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9
p. 100721

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Porous-activated carbons (PAC) show a lot of applications in various fields due to their large surface area and appropriate pore volume, along with decent thermal, chemical, and mechanical stability. Because of these characteristics, PACs are the best choice as an electrode material in supercapacitors (SCs). Due to the utility of PACs, this work reports the transformation of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) into PAC with a surface area of 162.40 m2/g. The synthesized PAC exhibits a maximum specific capacitance (CSP) of 40 F/g at five mV/s in 1-ethyl-3- methylimidazolium thiocyanate ionic liquid (EMIM SCN-IL) electrolyte. Also, no degradation was recorded in the initial Csp of the fabricated SC, even after 9000 cycles at room temperature. Additionally, using the same PAC in counter electrode dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) was also fabricated, and the cell was tested at 1 sun condition, which shows a fill factor of 59.37 % and an efficiency of 1.42 %.

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ISSN: 2667-0224 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Physics; Science: Chemistry
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