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The researchers of IIT Hyderabad in collaboration with ARCI Hyderabad have developed a simple and cost-effective method to derive activated carbon electrodes.
According to the research by IIT Hyderabad, Activated Carbon Electrode materials are made from cow husks for the purpose of high-voltage capacitors.
Activated carbon electrodes ensure better electrochemical performance as compared to conventional supercapacitors. However, these carbon-based electrodes play an important part in the development of energy storage devices.
This development is significant for states like Uttar Pradesh and combined states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, as both of them are first and second-largest producers of corn in India respectively.
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Both the states produce a large amount of corn husk waste, much of which waste is currently burnt due to lack of awareness, expertise and technology. As a result, the potential to be converted to valuable electrode material is not harnessed.
Furthermore, Assistant Prof. Atul Suresh Deshpande, Department of Material science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad and TN Rao, Associate Director ARCI( International Advanced Research Centre For Powder Metallurgy and New Materials) joined hands together for the synthesis procedure and the electrochemical performance of the material has been recently published in the Journal of Power Sources.
Carbon-based electrodes are typically derived from expensive, high precursors like polymers, organic precursors and high purity gases using various methods.
According to Deshpande, this method of producing activated carbon electrodes from cornhusks is also helpful in large scale commercial production.
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