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Title: Nitrified coke wastewater sludge flocs: an attractive precursor for N,S dual-doped graphene-like carbon with ultrahigh capacitance and oxygen reduction performance
Authors: Lei, Zhenchao
Feng, Weiming
Feng, Chunhua
Zhou, Weijia
Wei, Chaohai
Wang, Xin
Keywords: Wastewater treatment
Capacitance
Issue Date: 2017
Source: Lei, Z., Feng, W., Feng, C., Zhou, W., Wei, C., & Wang, X. (2017). Nitrified coke wastewater sludge flocs: an attractive precursor for N,S dual-doped graphene-like carbon with ultrahigh capacitance and oxygen reduction performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(5), 2012-2020.
Series/Report no.: Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Abstract: The handling of a huge amount of sludge produced from industrial wastewater treatment plants is a critical issue. We report a facile and cost-effective pyrolysis approach to transform coke wastewater sludge flocs into valuable carbon materials that show the potential of being used in energy-storage devices and fuel cells. The nitrified sludge flocs are naturally rich in carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and other inorganic particles and thus are attractive precursors for producing N,S dual-doped carbon with a hierarchical mesoporous graphene-like structure via the simple one-step pyrolysis method without the addition of external N- and/or S-containing organic compounds, chemical activation agents, or graphitization catalyst precursors. Owing to its unique features, the resulting nitrified sludge floc derived carbon (NSFC) exhibits outstanding capacitive performance. The specific capacitance determined in 1 M H2SO4 at a current density of 1 A g−1 is 889 F g−1, the highest among reported values for carbon-based materials in inorganic electrolytes, as far as we are aware. The NSFC also shows an excellent cycling stability with only 1.2% loss in capacitance after 10 000 cycles at a current density of 20 A g−1. The NSFC also achieves superior activity towards the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and proves to be a promising metal-free ORR electrocatalyst showing comparable electrocatalytic performance, higher selectivity, and longer durability as compared to the commercial Pt/C benchmark.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83371
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43540
ISSN: 2050-7488
DOI: 10.1039/C6TA09887H
Schools: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering 
Rights: © 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Journal of Materials Chemistry A, The Royal Society of Chemistry. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6TA09887H].
Fulltext Permission: open
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