The Potential of Activated Carbon From Bamboo For High End Electronic Applications

Highly porous electrodes with very high surface area are important for a supercapacitor. Increasing the surface area of AC material generally leads to increasing specific capacitance value of the material. A two stage carbonization and KOH activation of bamboo seemed to be effective in producing AC material with large surface area (1193 m2/g). The activation process produced the largest surface area, which led to the highest specific capacitance at low current density (241 F/g). This paper shows the potential of using biomass as the basic material for the production of supercapacitors and further research is essential to make it a reality.