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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
Volume 123, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2019.110708
Keywords
Deep eutectic solvents; Enzymatic hydrolysis lignin; Micro-mesoporous texture; N-doped carbons; Electrochemistry
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [31370567]
- Doctorate Fellowship Foundation of Nanjing Forestry University
- National First-Class Disciplines (PNFD)
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Dual functional deep eutectic solvent (DES) generated by the complexation of choline chloride and ZnCl2 was applied as both soft template and nitrogen source for the preparation of nanoporous carbons from sustainable lignin resource. Urea was purposely introduced as an additional nitrogen source as well as porogen. The diverse carbons were obtained by thermal treatment of the physical mixtures under N-2 atmosphere in one-step. Physicochemical characterization of the resultant carbons demonstrated that the presence of urea plays a key role in the formation of abundant micropores. With the incorporation of urea into the DES-templated system, the pore structure dominated by small mesopores evolved to a desirable micro-mesoporous hierarchical texture and exhibited a broccoli-like morphology. It has been demonstrated that the broccoli-like carbons exhibit enhanced electrochemical performance when used as electrodes in supercapacitors ascribed to the synergistic effect between rational micro-mesoporous structure and excellent nitrogen-doping efficiency (ca. 4-10 wt%).
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