Effect of thermochemical activation temperature on electrical conductivity and concentration of charge carriers in the obtained porous carbon materials

B.I. Rachiy; N.Ya. Ivanichok; V.V. Moklyak; P.I. Kolkovskyi; O.I. Bulbuk; A.M. Soltys; D.S. Borchuk; L.Z. Khrushch

doi:10.15330/pcss.25.4.853-862

Authors

B.I. Rachiy Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
N.Ya. Ivanichok G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics, N.A.S. of Ukraine, Ukraine
V.V. Moklyak G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics, N.A.S. of Ukraine, Ukraine; Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Ukraine
P.I. Kolkovskyi Vernadsky Institute General and Inorganic Chemistry, Ukraine
O.I. Bulbuk Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
A.M. Soltys Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
D.S. Borchuk Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
L.Z. Khrushch Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15330/pcss.25.4.853-862

Keywords:

nanoporous carbon material, low-temperature porometry, electrical conductivity, impedance spectroscopy, Mott-Schottky model, space charge

Abstract

By changing the temperature of chemical activation of plant biomass, nanoporous carbon materials with a specific surface area of up to 1050 m²/g were obtained. The obtained carbon materials were used to form composites with different percentages of conductive additive. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy was used to investigate the physicochemical processes occurring at the carbon electrode/electrolyte interface in a 30% aqueous KOH solution.

The concentration of charge carriers in the obtained carbon materials was determined, the values of which are in the range of 6·10¹⁸–35·10¹⁸ cm^-3, and its dependence on the temperature of thermochemical activation was established. It was established that an increase in the temperature of thermochemical activation from 600 ºС to 900 ºС leads to an increase in the capacity of the space charge region by almost 10 times. The formation of nanoporous carbon material/conductive additive composites contributes to the correlation between the values of specific capacitance and electrical resistance for the studied materials.

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