Biomass-Derived Porous Carbon: Synthesis and Application for Energy Conversion and Storage

Abstract

The conversion of biomass to carbonaceous materials have received wide attention these years. In particular, biomass-derived carbons demonstrate great potential as electrodes for different energy storage system due to their various architectures, low cost, and renewability. This review provided the recent progress in the synthesis and application of biomass-derived carbons and their hybrids as electrodes for energy storage. Various carbon structures including spheres, 1D fiber/tube, 2D sheets, 3D hierarchical porous carbon have been acquired from various biomass through different activation methods. Owing to their devise composition and morphology, the biomass-derived carbon materials are employed as electrodes for supercapacitors, metal-ion batteries and Li-S batteries. Finally, conclusions and outlook trends to the future development of biomass-derived carbons are proposed.