“…More recently, attention has been shifted to the use of other sources of biomass or organic waste materials for the production of efficient, low-cost, scalable, locally available and renewable carbon materials for absorbents or energy storage application [32]. This includes materials such as waste tea-leaves [33], potato starch [34], fish scale [35], rice husk [36], waste coffee beans [37] etc. However, reports on the use of activated carbon from pine cones (PCs) for supercapacitor application are few [38,39].…”