Journal of Materials Engineering

Self-templated construction of sargassum- based activated carbon and its electrochemical properties

JING Penghu, LI Shijie, TAN Xiaopeng, LI Hui

Journal of Materials Engineering, 2025, 53(4): 194-202. DOI: 10.11868/j.issn.1001-4381.2023.000519

Fig.4 Structural characterization of activated carbon prepared with different impregnation ratios（a）EDS spectra；（b）FT-IR spectra；（c）XRD spectra

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Table 1 Elemental and industrial analysis of sargassum （mass fraction/%）
Fig.1 Flowchart for the construction of “egg-box” structures by self-templates
Table 2 Orthogonal experiment parameters
Fig.2 Pore structure properties of sargassum-based activated carbon prepared at different impregnation ratios（a）isothermal adsorption curves；（b）pore size distribution curves
Fig.3 SEM images of activated carbon prepared from sargassum raw material and different impregnation ratios（a）sargassum raw material；（b）SAC₃；（c）SAC₅；（d）SAC₇
Table 3 Electrochemical test results
Table 4 Results of capacitance analysis for orthogonal experiments
Fig.5 GCD curves at 0.5 A/g of sargassum-based activated carbon with different experiment parameters（a）different impregnation ratios；（b）different activation temperatures
Table 5 Results of performance analysis for orthogonal experiment rate
Fig.6 Rate performance of sargassum-based activated carbon（a） and GCD of SAC₇ at different current densities（b）
Fig.7 CV curves under 50 mV/s of sargassum-based activated carbon prepared with different impregnation ratios（a） and different activation temperatures（b）， CV curves of activated carbon SAC₇（c）， and cycling performance of sargassum-based activated carbon at 5 A/g（d）