Dual-Salt-Induced Hierarchical Porous Structure in a Carbon Sheet for High Performance Supercapacitors.

Porous carbon, one of the characteristic materials for electrochemical energy storage devices, has been paid wide-ranging attention. However, balancing the reconcilable mesopore volume with a large specific surface area (SSA) was still a challenge. Herein, a dual-salt-induced activation strategy was developed to obtain a porous carbon sheet with ultrahigh SSA (3082 m 2 g -1 ), desirable mesopore volume (0.66 cm 3 g -1 ), nanosheet morphology, and high surface O (7.87%) and S (4.0%) content. Hence, as a supercapacitor electrode, the optimal sample possessed a high specific capacitance (351 F g -1 at 1 A g -1 ) and excellent rate performance (holding capacitance up to 72.2% at 50 A g -1 ). Furthermore, the assembled zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitor also exhibited superior reversible capacity (142.7 mAh g -1 at 0.2 A g -1 ) and highly stable cycling (71.2 mAh g -1 at 5 A g -1 after 10,000 cycles with retention of 98.9%). This work was delivered a new possibility for the development of coal resources for the preparation of high performance porous carbon materials.