Cover Picture: Pumpkin‐Derived Porous Carbon for Supercapacitors with High Performance (Chem. Asian J. 12/2016). Issue 12 (15th June 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bai, Suying; Tan, Guangqun; Li, Xiaoqin; Zhao, Qian; Meng, Yan; Wang, Yujue; Zhang, Yongzhi; Xiao, Dan
• Is Part Of: Chemistry, an Asian journal. Volume 11:Issue 12(2016)
• Page Start: 1747
• Page End: 1747
• Publication Date: 2016-06-15
• Subjects: capacitors -- energy storage -- microporous materials -- pumpkin -- renewable resources; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540.5
• DOI: 10.1002/asia.201600787
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1861-4728

Abstract

Abstract : Pumpkin is employed for the first time successfully as a renewable and low‐cost precursor to prepare porous carbon with excellent performance. This approach has many advantages for production on a large scale. The synthetic material exhibits a high specific capacitance of 419 F g −1 as well as high energy density of 22.1 W h kg −1 in an aqueous electrolyte. Thus, the prepared material holds great promise for applications in electrochemical energy‐storage devices. More information can be found in the Full Paper by Dan Xiao et al. onpage 1828 in Issue 12, 2016 (DOI:10.1002/asia.201600303 ).