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@article{189564,
        author = {Rounak Ramdas Atram and Shaikh Shaista Sharmuddin and Nainika Rajesh Dedhia},
        title = {Corn Husk Waste Valorisation: Synthesis and Characterization of High-Performance Carbon for supercapacitor},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {6665-6671},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=189564},
        abstract = {Corn is known to be the Queen of cereals. It is used as a basic raw material of various industrial products. As a result, a lot of corn husk is been wasted which creates a lot of biomass pollution. This CH can be utilized to make carbon. After the collection of CH from the vendors, it was cleaned and dried at room temperature. Moisture removal was carried out at 110°C. The biomass was further crushed into fine powder to undergo the process of torrefaction and carbonization during which CHBC was formed. CHBC/NiCo2O4 was formed by hydrothermal method. Characterization of the carbon was done using SEM, XRD, CV and EIS to study its surface morphology and electrochemical performance. The highest specific capacitance of CHBC was at 228 Fg-1 with current density 1Ag-1. The highest power density was at 1800 Wkg-1 with energy density of 5Whkg-1. The highest specific capacitance of NiCo2O4/CHBC was at 294 Fg-1 with current density 1Ag-1. The highest power density was at 2000 Wkg-1 with energy density of 15 Whkg-1. Thus, these result show that NiCo2O4/CHBC could be used to make efficient electrodes for supercapacitors.},
        keywords = {corn husk; biomass; carbonization; torrefaction; supercapacitors},
        month = {December},
        }