Abstract:
Microwave exposure is one possible promising heating method that can be used to create porous carbon materials. Activated carbon materials obtained by microwave heating can serve as an adsorbent or electrode material in energy storage devices such as supercapacitors. The paper investigates the processes of carbonization and activation of cotton lint using microwaves. A comparison is made with the traditional thermal method of heating, as well as with the mass-produced highly porous carbon fiber Busofit T1.
The study was carried out in the framework of the State Assignment to the Federal Research Center Crystallography and Photonics, Russian Academy of Sciences, and in the framework of the assignment to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation FNER-2022-0002.
Received:December 26, 2022 Revised:February 14, 2023 Accepted: February 17, 2023
Citation:
I. G. Dyachkova, D. A. Zolotov, A. S. Kumskov, I. S. Volchkov, V. V. Berestov, E. V. Matveev, “Potential of the microwave method for the activation of carbon materials in comparison with the traditional thermal method”, UFN, 193:12 (2023), 1325–1334; Phys. Usp., 66:12 (2023), 1248–1257