Mugashini Vasudevan; Aiswarya Kanesan; Sathaniswarman Remesh; Veeradasan Perumal; Pandian Bothi Raja; Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim; Saravanan Karuppanan; Subash C.B Gopinath; Mark Ovinis
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The purpose of this research is to develop a sustainable and organic energy storage system from oil palm lignin waste-derived Laser Scribed Graphene embedded with molybdenum disulfide (LSG/MoS2). In this study, LSG/MoS2 hybrids were fabricated to overcome the graphene zero band gap, restacking issues ...
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The purpose of this research is to develop a sustainable and organic energy storage system from oil palm lignin waste-derived Laser Scribed Graphene embedded with molybdenum disulfide (LSG/MoS2). In this study, LSG/MoS2 hybrids were fabricated to overcome the graphene zero band gap, restacking issues of molybdenum disulfide and to induce the electrical conductivity. Therefore, various amounts of LSG (0.1,0.5,1.0 g) were added in MoS2 precursor to produce nanoscale LSG/MoS2 hybrid nanostructure via the hydrothermal method. To justify the findings of LSG/MoS2 hybrid nanostructures, Raman spectroscopy, FESEM, TEM, and XRD were conducted. The D, G and 2D bands found in LSG confirm the formation of graphene from lignin. The morphology of LSG/MoS2 hybrids is porous and has a large surface area anchored with 3D MoS2 nanoflower on LSG. TEM has proved that LSG was wrapped with MoS2, where the presence of lattice spacing of 0.62 and 0.27nm, which corresponded to the (002) and (100) planes of MoS2 was observed. The electrochemical performance of the hybrids was conducted through Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) demonstrated that increment in LSG in MoS2 precursor effects the impedance and resistances performances.
Narasimhaa Naidu Loganathan; Kabilashen Readdyi Munusamy; Veeradasan Perumal; Bothi Raja Pandian
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This paper reports a facile carbonization method of a biopolymer to synthesize reduced graphene oxide with excellent electrochemical properties for use as a supercapacitor electrode. Oil palm lignin is used as the biopolymer-based graphene precursor, and a carbon dioxide laser is used to carbonize the ...
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This paper reports a facile carbonization method of a biopolymer to synthesize reduced graphene oxide with excellent electrochemical properties for use as a supercapacitor electrode. Oil palm lignin is used as the biopolymer-based graphene precursor, and a carbon dioxide laser is used to carbonize the material via lithography. Using Raman Spectroscopy, the characterization of the resultant graphene (OP-LSG) revealed D, G, and 2D peaks corresponding to multilayer graphene. Scanning Electron Microscopy of OP-LSG revealed three-dimensional particle-like fibrous and porous nanostructures with an enhanced surface area. In a three-electrode setup in ferrocyanide electrolyte, cyclic voltammetry showed the electrode coated with OP-LSG achieving a specific capacitance as high as 108.044 mF/cm² at a scan rate of 0.01 V/s. The galvanostatic charge-discharge of OP-LSG revealed energy and power density values of 15 µWh/cm² and 597 µW/cm² at a scan rate of 0.01 V/s. The OP-LSG electrode retained 97.5% of its initial capacitance after 1000 charge-discharge cycles.