Marine Waste Derived Carbons for Sustainable Energy Storage Applications
Marine biowaste offers a renewable source of precursors for high-performance carbon materials across a wide range of applications, particularly in electrochemical energy storage. This talk will outline the transition from raw waste materials to high-surface-area carbons optimized for robust supercapacitor performance and used as sulfur hosts in lithium-sulfur batteries. Furthermore, composite strategies incorporating titanium dioxide will be discussed, showcasing how they enhance charge storage and expand application boundaries into sensing and pollutant electrodegradation. Ultimately, these studies demonstrate that marine-derived carbons can anchor a circular materials platform for sustainable supercapacitors and next-generation batteries, while addressing critical remaining challenges in scalability, reproducibility, electrode engineering, and device-level validation.