Reusing waste coffee grounds as electrode materials: recent advances and future opportunities

M Pagett, KS Teng, G Sullivan, W Zhang - Global Challenges, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coffee industry produces more than eight million tons of waste coffee grounds (WCG)
annually. These WCG contain caffeine, tannins, and polyphenols and can be of great …

Effect of activating agents for producing activated carbon using a facile one-step synthesis with waste coffee grounds for symmetric supercapacitors

YH Chiu, LY Lin - Journal of the taiwan institute of chemical engineers, 2019 - Elsevier
Activated carbon with large surface area, high porosity and low-cost features is widely
applied as the energy storage material for supercapacitors. Activating agent is significant in …

High-performance discarded separator-based activated carbon for the application of supercapacitors

X Zhang, Y Wang, X Yu, J Tu, D Ruan, Z Qiao - Journal of Energy Storage, 2021 - Elsevier
The high-performance activated carbon prepared from low-cost precursors is urgently
needed for supercapacitors. In this paper, a novel activated carbon that has excellent …

Activated carbon derived from Japanese distilled liquor waste: application as the electrode active material of electric double-layer capacitors

T Eguchi, D Tashima, M Fukuma, S Kumagai - Journal of cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Shochu is a major distilled liquor in Japan, and significant shochu waste (approximately one
million metric tons) is discharged every year. Wheat shochu waste was precarbonized at …

A novel hollow sphere bismuth oxide doped mesoporous carbon nanocomposite material derived from sustainable biomass for picomolar electrochemical detection of …

KM Zeinu, H Hou, B Liu, X Yuan, L Huang… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel ultrasensitive, selective and low cost electrochemical sensor based on a hollow
sphere bismuth oxide doped mesoporous carbon aerogel nanocomposite derived from a …

Effect of binder on the electrochemical performance of activated carbon electrodes obtained from waste hazelnut shells: Comparison of PTFE and PVDF

P Ozpinar, C Dogan, H Demiral, U Morali, S Erol… - Diamond and Related …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the electrochemical performance of the electrode materials based on two
commonly used binders–poly (vinylidene difluoride)(PVDF) and poly (tetrafluoroethylene) …

The second life of coffee can be even more energizing: Circularity of materials for bio-based electrochemical energy storage devices

P Stufano, A Perrotta, R Labarile, M Trotta - MRS Energy & Sustainability, 2022 - Springer
Coffee is among the most drunk beverages in the world and its consumption produces
massive amounts of waste. Valorization strategies of coffee wastes include production of …

High-performance organic electrolyte supercapacitors based on intrinsically powdery carbon aerogels

X Lin, H Lou, W Lu, F Xu, R Fu, D Wu - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
A novel class of powdery carbon aerogels (PCAs) has been developed by the union of
microemulsion polymerization and hypercrosslinking, followed by carbonization. The …

Porous carbon electrodes from activated wasted coffee grounds for capacitive deionization

M Qian, XY Xuan, LK Pan, SQ Gong - Ionics, 2019 - Springer
Wasted coffee grounds (WCGs) were activated by a pyrolysis process using KOH, where the
porosity increased with temperature, exhibiting a micropore-dominant structure. WCGs upon …

Spin‐thermoelectric voltage in longitudinal SSE elements incorporating LPE YIG films and polycrystalline YIG slabs with an ultrathin Pt layer

M Imamura, H Asada, D Tashima… - … Engineering in Japan, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A spin‐thermoelectric (STE) voltage is generated when a temperature gradient∇ T is
applied to an element having a thin Pt layer coated on a magnetic substance. In this study …