TY - JOUR
T1 - Facile electrochemical synthesis of few layered graphene from discharged battery electrode and its application for energy storage
AU - Tiwari, Santosh K.
AU - Huczko, Andrzej
AU - Oraon, Ramesh
AU - De Adhikari, Amrita
AU - Nayak, G. C.
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge Dr. VasantSathe (Scientist F) of UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore for the help with micro-Raman measurements. We are also grateful for financial support from ISM Dhanbad and DST (Grant Number: SERB/F/4910/2013-14 ) and NCN Grant No. 2012/05/B/ST5/00709 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - A cost-effective, simple and non-hazardous route for synthesis of few-layered graphene from waste zinc carbon battery (ZCB) electrodes via electrochemical expansion (ECE) has been reported. In this synthesis, we have electrochemically exfoliated the graphene layers, by intercalating sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate (SDBS) surfactant into graphitic layers at different D.C. voltages with a constant SDBS concentration. The graphene sheets were isolated, purified and characterized by Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectrometry, Ultraviolet absorption (UV), Selected area electron diffraction (SAED) and Cyclic voltammetry. Best result was obtained at 4.5 V of D.C. A possible mechanism for the intercalation process has been proposed. A promising application of the produced material for supercapacitor application has also been explored in combination with polyaniline.
AB - A cost-effective, simple and non-hazardous route for synthesis of few-layered graphene from waste zinc carbon battery (ZCB) electrodes via electrochemical expansion (ECE) has been reported. In this synthesis, we have electrochemically exfoliated the graphene layers, by intercalating sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate (SDBS) surfactant into graphitic layers at different D.C. voltages with a constant SDBS concentration. The graphene sheets were isolated, purified and characterized by Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectrometry, Ultraviolet absorption (UV), Selected area electron diffraction (SAED) and Cyclic voltammetry. Best result was obtained at 4.5 V of D.C. A possible mechanism for the intercalation process has been proposed. A promising application of the produced material for supercapacitor application has also been explored in combination with polyaniline.
KW - Electrochemical expansion
KW - Few layered graphene
KW - Sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate
KW - Supercapacitors
KW - Zinc carbon battery
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U2 - 10.1016/j.arabjc.2015.08.016
DO - 10.1016/j.arabjc.2015.08.016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84941000028
SN - 1878-5352
VL - 10
SP - 556
EP - 565
JO - Arabian Journal of Chemistry
JF - Arabian Journal of Chemistry
IS - 4
ER -