Separator with high ionic conductivity and good stability prepared from keratin fibers for supercapacitor applications

C Zhao, J Niu, C Xiao, Z Qin, X Jin, W Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Keratin is one of natural polymers with super wettability, which is an alternative sustainable
polymer to fabric separators for high-performance supercapacitors (SCs). However, the …

Keratin-derived functional carbon with superior charge storage and transport for high-performance supercapacitors

P Sinha, A Yadav, A Tyagi, P Paik, H Yokoi, AK Naskar… - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
This work reports a scalable method to synthesize hierarchically porous, hetero-atom doped
activated carbon nanosheet from waste biomass− human hair, and demonstrates the use of …

Fabrication of electrospun keratin nanofiber membranes for air and water treatment

A Figoli, C Ursino, DO Sanchez Ramirez… - Polymer Engineering …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Keratin proteins extracted from wool fibers by sulfitolysis were electrospun for the production
of active nanofiber membranes (NFMs). The keratin NFMs were composited with nylon …

Keratin-derived heteroatoms-doped hierarchical porous carbon materials for all-solid flexible supercapacitors

S Wu, H Zhou, Y Zhou, H Wang, Y Li, X Liu… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, N, O, S co-doped hierarchical porous carbons are developed utilizing low cost
and sustainable keratin obtained from chicken feathers as a precursor. The intrinsic …

Ultrathin separator with efficient ion transport and superior stability prepared from cotton cellulose for advanced supercapacitors

H Wu, H Huang, Y Xu, F Xu, X Zhang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The thickness of separators has a great influence on electrochemical performance and
battery safety. However, the solution for the inevitable trade-off between separators …

A Flexible, Redox‐Active, Aqueous Electrolyte‐Based Asymmetric Supercapacitor with High Energy Density Based on Keratin‐Derived Renewable Carbon

P Sinha, KK Kar, AK Naskar - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This work exploits the advantage of asymmetric configuration over symmetric supercapacitor
in designing high energy density flexible devices from two active electrode materials–keratin …

High performance flexible silk fabric electrodes with antibacterial, flame retardant and UV resistance for supercapacitors and sensors

H Cai, Z Liu, M Xu, L Chen, X Chen, L Cheng, Z Li… - Electrochimica …, 2021 - Elsevier
High-performance textile electrodes exhibit considerable potential for use as electronic
devices in the wearable energy field. As silk fibroin protein can be dissolved, silk fabric is …

Fabrication and characterization of high molecular keratin based nanofibrous membranes for wound healing

JP Ye, JS Gong, C Su, YG Liu, M Jiang, H Pan… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Keratin is widely used in the biomaterial application, but the keratin prepared by the physical
or chemical approach has relatively low molecular weight and mechanical properties. Here …

Effect of clay content on morphology and processability of electrospun keratin/poly (lactic acid) nanofiber

SIN Ayutthaya, S Tanpichai, W Sangkhun… - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
This research work has concerned the development of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
removal filters from biomaterials, based on keratin extracted from chicken feather waste and …

[HTML][HTML] Vapor-assisted crosslinking of a FK/PVA/PEO nanofiber membrane

J Ding, M Chen, W Chen, M He, X Zhou, G Yin - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Herein, we demonstrate a three-component FK/PVA/PEO nanofiber membrane by
electrospinning and vapor-assisted crosslinking. We have used feather-derived-keratin (FK) …