Collaboration Opportunity: Scalable Production of 3D Graphene from Coal/Petroleum Pitch for Advanced Energy Applications
ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF
About this opportunity
Opportunity: NETL is seeking collaboration to further develop and commercialize a method for using coal pitch or petroleum pitch for making an electrically conductive, porous, 3-dimensional (3D) graphene material that can be used as a sorbent, supercapacitor electrode, or electrochemical electrode/sensor. The manufacturing method also allows for recovery, regeneration, and reuse of the K2CO3 chemical activating agent used to synthesize the graphene material. Background: Despite graphene being considered an ideal material for electrochemical electrode applications, its use in commercial devices is limited because few methods exist to produce high-quality graphene at a large scale and low cost. Several fabrication techniques have been reported for 3D graphene but these methods are often limi...