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Transforming collagen wastes into doped nanocarbons for sustainable energy applications

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Title Transforming collagen wastes into doped nanocarbons for sustainable energy applications
 
Creator Ashokkumar, Meiyazhagan
Narayanan, Narayanan Tharangattu
Reddy, Arava Leela Mohana
Gupta, Bipin Kumar
Chandrasekaran, Bangaru
Talapatra, Saikat
Ajayan, Pulickel M.
Thanikaivelan, Palanisamy
 
Subject Chemistry
Food Science & Technology
 
Description Leather industry produces huge quantities of bio-waste that can be used as raw material for the bulk synthesis of carbonaceous materials. Here we report the synthesis of multifunctional carbon nanostructures from pristine collagen wastes by a simple high temperature treatment. Our studies reveal that the nanocarbons derived from the bio-waste have a partially graphitized structure with onion-like morphology and are naturally doped with nitrogen and oxygen, resulting in multifunctional properties. This synthetic route from bio-waste raw material provides a cost-effective alternative to existing chemical vapor deposition methods for the synthesis of functional nanocarbon materials and presents a sustainable approach to tailor nanocarbons for applications such as battery electrodes.
 
Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry
 
Date 2012
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://npl.csircentral.net/4056/1/subject.pdf
Ashokkumar, Meiyazhagan and Narayanan, Narayanan Tharangattu and Reddy, Arava Leela Mohana and Gupta, Bipin Kumar and Chandrasekaran, Bangaru and Talapatra, Saikat and Ajayan, Pulickel M. and Thanikaivelan, Palanisamy (2012) Transforming collagen wastes into doped nanocarbons for sustainable energy applications. Green Chemistry, 14 (6). pp. 1689-1695. ISSN 1463-9262
 
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