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Chen P, Yu J, He S, Wang X, Liu S, Yang J. Boosting oxygen reduction durability by embedding Co 9S 8 nanoparticles into Co single atoms anchored porous carbon frameworks. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 667:425-432. [PMID: 38640661 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.04.108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2024] [Revised: 04/11/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/21/2024]
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Developing an efficient and low-cost oxygen reduction electrocatalyst is essential for the application of aqueous zinc-air batteries (ZABs). Herein, we report a facile adsorption-confined pyrolysis strategy to fabricate the hybrid electrocatalyst (denoted as Co9S8/CoSA-PC) by embedding Co9S8 nanoparticles into Co single atoms (Co-SAs) anchored porous carbon sheets for boosting oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) durability. In this strategy, the Co2+ ions are first absorbed into oxygen-rich porous carbon nanosheets and further form the Co-SAs with the help of thiourea in the following pyrolysis procedure, which is believed to be able to confine the generated Co9S8 nanoparticles into carbon frameworks due to their interface interaction. Benefiting from the synergistic effect of different components, the obtained Co9S8/CoSA-PC electrocatalyst for ORR exhibits outstanding catalytic activity with a half-wave potential of 0.82 V and a distinguished long-term durability with a current retention of 80 % after cycling 80 h under alkaline conditions, which is superior to commercial Pt/C. Moreover, the assembled ZABs with Co9S8/CoSA-PC as cathodic catalyst deliver a high specific capacity of 764 mAh gZn-1 at 10 mA cm-2 and the outstanding peak power density of up to 221.4 mW cm-2. This work provides a novel structure design strategy to prepare transition metal sulfide-based electrocatalysts with superior durability for ORR.
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- Pei Chen
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, PR China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, PR China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, PR China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, PR China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, PR China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, PR China.
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Zhang G, Zhang Y, Wang J, Yu J, Wang K, Li G, Guan T. Nitrogen-functionalization of carbon materials for supercapacitor: Combining with nanostructure directly is superior to doping amorphous element. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 660:478-489. [PMID: 38246051 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.01.112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2023] [Revised: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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Just how heteroatomic functionalization enhances electrochemical capacity of carbon materials is a recent and widely studied field in scientific research. However, there is no consensus on whether combining with heteroatom-bearing nanostructures directly or doping amorphous elements is more advantageous. Herein, two kinds of porous carbon nanosheets were prepared from coal tar pitch through anchoring graphitic carbon nitride (PCNs/GCNs-5) or doping amorphous nitrogen element (PCNs/N). The structural characteristics and electrochemical properties of the two PCNs were revealed and compared carefully. It can be found that the amorphous nitrogen of PCNs/N will have a grievous impact on its carbon skeleton network, resulting in reduced stability in charge and discharge process, while the structural collapse of carbon network could be avoided in PCNs/GCNs-5 by the heteroatoms in the form of nanostructure. Particularly, PCNs/GCNs-5 exhibits extremely high specific capacity of 388 F g-1 at 1 A g-1, and splendid the capacitance retention rate of 98% after 10,000 cycles of charge and discharge, which are overmatch than the amorphous nitrogen doped carbon materials reported recently and PCNs/N. The combining strategy with nanostructure will inspire the design of carbon materials towards high-performance supercapacitor.
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- Guoli Zhang
- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, PR China; Department of Microsystems, University of South-Eastern Norway, Horten 3184, Norway.
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- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, PR China; Department of Microsystems, University of South-Eastern Norway, Horten 3184, Norway
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- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, PR China
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- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, PR China
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- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; Department of Microsystems, University of South-Eastern Norway, Horten 3184, Norway
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- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; Department of Microsystems, University of South-Eastern Norway, Horten 3184, Norway.
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- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, PR China.
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Xiao L, Wang Y, Fu T, Liu Q, Guo F, Zhang Y, Li M, Bo X, Liu T. Facile synthesis of ultrafine iron-cobalt (FeCo) nanocrystallite-embedded boron/nitrogen-codoped porous carbon nanosheets: Accelerated water splitting catalysts. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 654:150-163. [PMID: 37837851 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.10.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 09/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/16/2023]
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Designing two-dimensional (2D) porous carbon nanosheets is expected to boost the water splitting efficiency of low-cost iron (Fe) and cobalt (Co)-based catalysts. Nevertheless, the aggregations, tedious preparation procedures, and expensive precursors for synthesizing 2D porous carbon nanosheets have hindered their widespread application. Herein, for the first time, we developed a low-cost method for large-scale and rapid synthesis of the three-dimensional (3D) hierarchically porous architectures self-assembled by the ultrafine FeCo nanoparticles embedded and boron/nitrogen-codoped 2D porous carbon nanosheets (denoted as FeCo@BNPCNS). The optimal FeCo@BNPCNS-900 exhibited abundant porous channels, a large surface area, and vast carbon edges/defects. Therefore, 8.10 at% electrochemically active boron (B)/nitrogen (N) centers were doped into the porous carbon nanosheets. In an alkaline solution, the optimal FeCo@BNPCNS-900 nanosheets revealed excellent hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalytic activity, surpassing commercial 20 wt% Pt/C. For instance, the HER potential at 10 mA cm-2 [-50.6 mV vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE)] of FeCo@BNPCNS-900 was even 19.3 mV more positive than that of commercial 20 wt% Pt/C (-69.9 mV vs. RHE). Meanwhile, its oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalytic activity was just a little worse than ruthenium oxide (RuO2). The water electrolysis cell of FeCo@BNPCNS-900 nanosheets just required a small voltage of 1.589 V for full water splitting to achieve 10 mA cm-2, even 70.3 mV more negative than that of the state-of-the-art 20 wt% Pt/C||RuO2 benchmark (1.660 V) with outstanding stability. The perfect 3D hierarchically porous and honeycomb-like architecture, abundant porous channels/mesopores, and uniformly dispersed electrocatalytically active sites on FeCo@BNPCNS-900 nanosheets were responsible for the outstanding water splitting performance. Finally, this study provides an efficient strategy for the large-scale, rapid, and low-cost synthesis of 2D porous carbon nanosheets without using any template, surfactant, or expensive precursors.
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- Lan Xiao
- National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China
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- National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Yunnan University, No. 2, Green Lake North Road, Kunming 650091, PR China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Yunnan University, No. 2, Green Lake North Road, Kunming 650091, PR China
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- National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China
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- National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China
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- National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Nanobiosensing and Nanobioanalysis at Universities of Jilin Province, Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, PR China.
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- School of Materials and Energy, Yunnan University, No. 2, Green Lake North Road, Kunming 650091, PR China; Electron Microscopy Center, Yunnan University, No. 2, Green Lake North Road, Kunming 650091, PR China.
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Li M, Guo F, Xiao L, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Bo X, Liu T. Synthesis of three-dimensional (3D) hierarchically porous iron-nickel nanoparticles encapsulated in boron and nitrogen-codoped porous carbon nanosheets for accelerated water splitting. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 652:758-769. [PMID: 37507236 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.07.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2023] [Revised: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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Designing two-dimensional (2D) porous carbon nanosheets is a promising strategy for enhancing the water-splitting activities of non-noble metal catalysts. In this study, we developed a novel method for synthesizing the novel three-dimensional (3D) hierarchically porous iron-nickel (FeNi) nanoparticles encapsulated in boron (B) and nitrogen (N)-codoped porous carbon nanosheets (denoted as FeNi@BNPCNS). Owing to the advantages of morphology and structure of B and N, 10.31 atom % of B/N active centers were successfully doped into the optimal FeNi@BNPCNS-800 nanosheets. FeNi@BNPCNS-800 exhibited better hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalytic activities than control catalysts in an alkaline solution. However, the HER and OER electrocatalytic activities of FeNi@BNPCNS-800 were slightly lower than 20 wt% Pt/C and RuO2. The FeNi@BNPCNS-800||FeNi@BNPCNS-800 electrolyzer achieved 10 mA cm-2 at 1.514 V, which was 73 mV lower than that of 20 wt% Pt/C||RuO2 electrolyzer (1.587 V). The perfect 3D honeycomb-like architectures, abundant mesopores/defects, and abundant electrocatalytic active sites were attributed to the outstanding water-splitting performances of FeNi@BNPCNS-800 nanosheets. This study provides an efficient strategy for the large-scale, rapid, and low-cost fabrication of 2D porous carbon nanosheets without using any template, surfactant, or expensive raw material, thus presenting a simple approach to design advanced non-noble metal electrocatalysts for water splitting.
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- Mian Li
- National and Local Joint Engineering Center for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China.
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- National and Local Joint Engineering Center for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China
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- National and Local Joint Engineering Center for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China
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- National and Local Joint Engineering Center for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China
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- National and Local Joint Engineering Center for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Nanobiosensing and Nanobioanalysis at Universities of Jilin Province, Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, PR China.
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- School of Materials and Energy, Electron Microscopy Center, Yunnan University, No. 2, Green Lake North Road, Kunming 650091, PR China.
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Zhang Y, Zhang G, Wu J, Yu J, Li G, Guan T, Wang K. Amorphous carbon nanosheets suitable for deep eutectic solvent electrolyte toward cryogenic energy storage. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 650:2003-2013. [PMID: 37531667 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.07.156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Revised: 07/19/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023]
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The emerging deep eutectic solvent (DES) electrolyte has great potential in realizing commercial-scale application of electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) served in low temperature environment. That goal, however, rests with how to design the interface structure of electrode materials for well-matching with DES electrolyte. Herein, porous carbon nanosheets (PCNs) were obtained from coal tar pitch through Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction and melting salt intercalation process. The morphology, specific surface area and porosity of porous carbon nanosheets were regulated by tailoring the abundance of the dangling-bonds grafted on the CTP molecules. Profiting from the large specific surface area, suitable pore structure and good two-dimensional structure to provide more active sites and enhance ion transport capacity, the PCNs-0.10 delivers a maximal specific capacitance of 504F g-1 at 0.1 A g-1, which is overmatch than most of previously reported for other carbon materials. As-assembled symmetrical EDLCs using K+ DES electrolyte, can be assembled to work at -40 °C to 75 °C and exhibit satisfactory energy density. The strategy proposed here has opened a new way for exploring the large-scale preparation of electrode materials suitable for ultra-low temperature capacitors.
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- Yi Zhang
- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, PR China
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- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, PR China.
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- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, PR China
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- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, PR China
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- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China
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- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, PR China.
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- Institute Energy Innovation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 West Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China; Department of Microsystems, University of South-Eastern Norway, Horten 3184, Norway.
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Tang S, Li C, Li L, Huang J, Wang B, Zhong R, Tang Y, Wu C, Wu K. Graphene/metal-organic framework nano-sandwiches derived N, P-codoped porous carbon nanosheets as robust material for electrochemical analysis. Anal Chim Acta 2023; 1277:341675. [PMID: 37604626 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2023.341675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Revised: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
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Construction of novel two-dimensional porous carbon nanosheets with superior electrochemical activity is of great challenge. Here, graphene/ZIF-8 nano-sandwiches derived N, P-codoped porous carbon nanosheets (N, P-codoped PCN) was easily obtained by sequential room temperature self-assembly and high-temperature carbonization method. Relative to the widely used physically exfoliated graphene nanosheets (GN) and graphene/ZIF-8 derived N-doped porous carbon nanosheets (N-doped PCN), N, P-codoped PCN displayed larger active surface, faster electron transport ability and stronger physical adsorption ability, which can be ascribed to the dual doping effect of heteroatoms N and P. As a result, N, P-codoped PCN exhibited remarkable oxidation signal enhancement for tumor marker (8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine), analgesic and antipyretic drug (acetaminophen) and organic pesticide (benomyl). Besides, the limits of detection were measured as low as 1.58 nM, 7.50 nM and 2.10 nM with sensitivity of 270.00 μA μM-1 cm-2, 757.14 μA μM-1 cm-2 and 272.86 μA μM-1 cm-2 for 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine, acetaminophen and benomyl, respectively. Basing on this, a novel and highly sensitive electrochemical sensing platform was developed. It is believed that the reported two-dimensional N, P-codoped PCN with unique structure and composition is highly valuable for the development of carbon-based electrochemical sensors.
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- Shiyu Tang
- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- Equine Science Research and Horse Doping Control Laboratory, Wuhan Business University, Wuhan, 430056, China.
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- Hubei Provincial Institute for Food Supervision and Test, Wuhan, 430075, China
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- School of Materials Science & Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
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- College of Health Science and Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China; Hubei Jiangxia Laboratory, Wuhan, 430299, China.
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- College of Health Science and Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China
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Wen F, Yan Y, Sun S, Li X, He X, Meng Q, Zhe Liu J, Qiu X, Zhang W. Synergistic effect of nitrogen and oxygen dopants in 3D hierarchical porous carbon cathodes for ultra-fast zinc ion hybrid supercapacitors. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 640:1029-1039. [PMID: 36913835 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 02/25/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/15/2023]
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Zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitor is one of the most promising electrochemical energy storage devices for the applications needing both high energy densities and power densities. Nitrogen doping is an effective way to enhance the capacitive performance of porous carbon cathodes in zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitor. However, accurate evidence is yet needed to demonstrate how nitrogen dopants influence the charge storage of Zn2+ and H+ cations. Herein, we prepared 3D interconnected hierarchical porous carbon nanosheets by a one-step explosion method. The effect of nitrogen dopants on pseudocapacitance was analyzed by the electrochemical behaviors of as-prepared porous carbon samples with similar morphology and pore structure but different nitrogen and oxygen doping levels. Ex-situ XPS and DFT calculation demonstrate that nitrogen dopants promote the pseudocapacitive reactions by lowering the energy barrier for the change of oxidation states of carbonyl moieties. Owing to the improved pseudocapacitance by nitrogen/oxygen dopants and fast diffusion of Zn2+ ions in 3D interconnected hierarchical porous carbon matrix, the as-constructed ZIHCs show both high gravimetric capacitance (301 F g-1 at 0.1 A g-1) and excellent rate capability (a capacitance retention of 30% at 200 A g-1).
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- Fuwang Wen
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Biorefinery, School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), 100 Waihuan Xi Road, Panyu District, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Biorefinery, School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), 100 Waihuan Xi Road, Panyu District, Guangzhou 510006, China; Jieyang Branch of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Rongjiang Laboratory), Jieyang 515200, China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Biorefinery, School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), 100 Waihuan Xi Road, Panyu District, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Biorefinery, School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), 100 Waihuan Xi Road, Panyu District, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Biorefinery, School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), 100 Waihuan Xi Road, Panyu District, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Biorefinery, School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), 100 Waihuan Xi Road, Panyu District, Guangzhou 510006, China; Jieyang Branch of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Rongjiang Laboratory), Jieyang 515200, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Biorefinery, School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), 100 Waihuan Xi Road, Panyu District, Guangzhou 510006, China; Jieyang Branch of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Rongjiang Laboratory), Jieyang 515200, China; Research Institute of Green Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, School of Advanced Manufacturing, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), Jieyang, Jieyang 515200, China.
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Song P, Li C, Zhao N, Ji Z, Zhai L, Shen X, Liu Q. Molten salt-confined pyrolysis towards heteroatom-doped porous carbon nanosheets for high-energy-density Zn-ion hybrid supercapacitors. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 633:362-373. [PMID: 36459941 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.11.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Revised: 11/19/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Carbon nanosheets with heteroatom doping and well-developed porosity exhibit broad application foreground for Zn-ion hybrid supercapacitors (ZHSCs), but the simple and controllable preparation is still of great challenge. In this study, by using LiCl-KCl as in-built templates, histidine as carbon and nitrogen sources, and KNO3, K2SO4, KOH or Na2S2O3 as active agent, a series of N and NS doped porous carbon nanosheets are developed. Results indicate that, with the activator introduction, pore structures of the carbonized products are notably boosted, showing an astounding 30-244 % increase in BET specific surface area, and meanwhile, heteroatom with a content of ca. 12 % can be doped into the resultant carbon skeletons. Specifically, the NSPCN-800 (activated by Na2S2O3) with a large specific surface area of 1297 m2/g, a hierarchically porous structure composed of abundant micropores and mesopores, and a suitable heteroatom content (N: 11.9 wt%; S: 0.6 wt%) presents an impressive energy storage behavior as cathode for ZHSCs, including a specific capacitance of 165.8F/g, a specific capacity of 95.2 mAh/g, an energy density of 59.0 Wh kg-1 and a cyclic stability with a 82.6 % capacity retention after 5000 cycles. These performance parameters surpass numerous reported ZHSCs, making NSPCN-800 a very promising cathode for practical use.
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- Peng Song
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, Advanced Catalysis and Green Manufacturing Collaborative Innovation Center, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, PR China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, Advanced Catalysis and Green Manufacturing Collaborative Innovation Center, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, PR China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, Advanced Catalysis and Green Manufacturing Collaborative Innovation Center, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, Advanced Catalysis and Green Manufacturing Collaborative Innovation Center, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, PR China.
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Zhu G, Chen L, Lu T, Zhang L, Hossain MSA, Amin MA, Yamauchi Y, Li Y, Xu X, Pan L. Cu-based MOF-derived architecture with Cu/Cu 2O nanospheres anchored on porous carbon nanosheets for efficient capacitive deionization. Environ Res 2022; 210:112909. [PMID: 35157915 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.112909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Revised: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
The design of high-performance electrode materials with excellent desalination ability has always been a research goal for efficient capacitive deionization (CDI). Herein, a hybrid architecture with Cu/Cu2O nanospheres anchored on porous carbon nanosheets (Cu/Cu2O/C) was first synthesized by pyrolyzing a two-dimensional (2D) Cu-based metal-organic framework and then evaluated as a cathode for hybrid CDI. The as-prepared Cu/Cu2O/C exhibits a hierarchically porous structure with a high specific surface area of 305 m2 g-1 and large pore volume of 0.55 cm3 g-1, which is favorable to accelerating ion migration and diffusion. The porous carbon nanosheet matrix with enhanced conductivity will facilitate the Faradaic reactions of Cu/Cu2O nanospheres during the desalination process. The Cu/Cu2O/C hybrid architecture displays a high specific capacitance of 142.5 F g-1 at a scan rate of 2 mV s-1 in 1 M NaCl solution. The hybrid CDI constructed using the Cu/Cu2O/C cathode and a commercial activated carbon anode exhibits a high desalination capacity of 16.4 mg g-1 at an operation voltage of 1.2 V in 500 mg L-1 NaCl solution. Additionally, the hybrid CDI exhibits a good cycling stability with 18.3% decay in the desalination capacity after 20 electrosorption-desorption cycles. Thus, the Cu/Cu2O/C composite is expected to be a promising cathode material for hybrid CDI.
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- Guang Zhu
- Key Laboratory of Spin Electron and Nanomaterials of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Suzhou University, Suzhou, 234000, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Spin Electron and Nanomaterials of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Suzhou University, Suzhou, 234000, China
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- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia; School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology (EAIT), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia
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- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia; School of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology (EAIT), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia; International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan
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- Key Laboratory of Spin Electron and Nanomaterials of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Suzhou University, Suzhou, 234000, China.
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China.
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Yang J, Tan Z, Chen X, Liang Y, Zheng M, Hu H, Dong H, Liu X, Liu Y, Xiao Y. A mild method to prepare nitrogen-rich interlaced porous carbon nanosheets for high-performance supercapacitors. J Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 599:381-389. [PMID: 33962199 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.04.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2021] [Revised: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
In this work, a non-toxic and mild strategy was presented to efficiently fabricate porous and nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets. Silkworm cocoon (SCs) acted as carbon source and original nitrogen source. Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) could facilitate the SCs to expose silk protein and played a catalytic role in the subsequent activation of calcium chloride (CaCl2). Calcium chloride served as pore-making agent. The as-obtained carbon materials with protuberant porous nanosheets exhibit high specific surface area of 731 m2 g-1, rich native nitrogen-doped of 7.91 atomic %, wide pore size distribution from 0.5 to 65 nm, and thus possessing high areal specific capacitances of 34 μF cm-2 as well as excellent retention rate of 97% after 20 000 cycles at a current density of 20 A g-1 in 6 M KOH electrolyte. The assembled carbon nanosheet-based supercapacitor displays a maximum energy density of 21.06 Wh kg-1 at the power density of 225 W kg-1 in 1 M Na2SO4 electrolyte. Experimental results show that a mild and non-toxic treatment of biomass can be an effective and extensible method for preparing optimal porous carbon for electrochemical energy storage.
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- Jiewei Yang
- Key Laboratory for Biomassed Materias and Energy of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agriculture, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomassed Materias and Energy of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agriculture, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomassed Materias and Energy of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agriculture, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomassed Materias and Energy of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agriculture, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomassed Materias and Energy of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agriculture, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomassed Materias and Energy of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agriculture, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomassed Materias and Energy of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agriculture, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomassed Materias and Energy of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agriculture, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomassed Materias and Energy of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agriculture, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou 510642, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Biomassed Materias and Energy of Ministry of Education/Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agriculture, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou 510642, China.
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