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Transforming Nonrecyclable Plastic Waste into Cathode Materials for Energy Storage Devices

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Ahmadian Hoseini, Amir Hosein, Mir, Rameez Ahmad, Aboonasr Shiraz, Mohammad Hossein, Arjmand, Mohammad, Liu, Jian·2025·Advanced Sustainable Systems
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Plastic pollution poses a significant threat to the global health and ecosystem. Repurposing plastic wastes for sustainable energy is a promising approach to mitigate the plastic pollution problem. In this study, plastic waste‐derived activated carbon (PWC) is synthesized from nonrecyclable waste and used as a cathode material in lithium–selenium (Li–Se) batteries and zinc‐ion hybrid supercapacitors (ZHCs). Increasing the activation temperature (500–800 °C) enhances the specific surface area and pore volume and tailors the porous structure of PWC toward larger pore sizes. PWC activated at lower temperatures with potassium hydroxide (KOH) shows better performance as the Se host in Li–Se batteries due to their microporous structure for effective Se confinement. Se cathode based on PWC activated at 600 °C (PWC600/Se) delivers a reversible discharge capacity of 655.2 mAh g−1 at 0.1 C over 150 cycles. PWC activated at 800 °C (PWC800) possesses the largest surface area of 2328.2 m 2 g−1 and is thus used to fabricate cathode electrodes for ZHCs. The developed PWC800‐ZHC delivers a high energy density of 97 Wh kg−1 at 1600 W kg−1 power density and excellent cycle stability with only 8% capacitance decay after 5000 cycles at 1.0 A g−1.

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  • Hoseini et al. used mixed plastic waste, pyrolyzed it at 400 °C, activated the char with KOH at 600 °C to obtain PWC600, and used it as a lithium-selenium battery cathode; it maintained a stable specific capacity of 655.2 mAh/g after 150 cycles at 0.1 C, reaching 97% of the theoretical capacity of selenium.

    “Hoseini and colleagues used mixed plastic waste as the feedstock [34] .After pyrolysis at 400 °C under a nitrogen atmosphere, they activated the resulting char with KOH at 600 °C to obtain porous carbon (PWC600).PWC600 was subsequently employed as a cathode material in lithium-selenium (Li-Se) batteries.”

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Ahmadian Hoseini, A. H., Mir, R. A., Aboonasr Shiraz, M. H., Arjmand, M., & Liu, J.
Affiliations
  • School of Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) 1137 Alumni Ave Kelowna BC V1V 1V7 Canada
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
Corresponding author
  • Arjmand, Mohammad
  • Liu, Jian
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Advanced Sustainable Systems
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2025-01-02
Volume
9
Issue
3
ISSN
2366-7486 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1002/adsu.202400650
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W4405997902
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  • Canada Research Chairs
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN 2020, RGPIN-2023, 2020-03914, rgpin-2020-03914, rgpin-2023-03655, 579445-2023)
  • British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
Keywords
plastic waste, activated carbon, lithium-selenium batteries, zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitors, cathode materials, plastic pollution, KOH activation, activation temperature, porous structure, energy storage, waste valorization

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