Biomass is a promising
carbon source for supercapacitor electrode
materials due to its abundant source, diversity, and low-cost. Yeast
is an elliptic unicellular fungal organism that is widespread in nature.
In this work, we used yeast as the carbon source and Na
2
SiO
3
as the activator to prepare a honeycomb porous carbon
with higher surface area. The yeast and Na
2
SiO
3
were directly mixed and ground without any solvent, which is simple
and characterized by large-scale application. The prepared porous
carbon shows a good specific capacity of 313 F/g in 6 M KOH at a density
of 0.5 A/g and an excellent rate capability of 85.9% from 0.5 to 10
A/g. The results suggest that the yeast-derived porous carbon may
be a promising sustainable bio-material for the preparation of supercapacitor
carbon electrode materials. This study provides an economical and
practical avenue for yeast resource utilization and develops a simple
approach to prepare porous carbon materials.