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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 587, Issue -, Pages 290-301Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.12.022
Keywords
Nitrogen-doped porous carbon; Effective pore; Synergistic effect; Oxygen reduction reaction; Supercapacitor; Zinc-air battery
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51702358]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20170281]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2019ZDPY02]
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A promising NPC material with excellent electrochemical performance has been successfully synthesized in this work, with delicately tuned pore structures and nitrogen species. Compared to traditional materials, this material exhibits outstanding performance in both oxygen reduction reaction and supercapacitors, demonstrating the synergistic effects of nitrogen species and optimized pore structures.
Clean energy conversion/storage techniques have become increasingly significant because of the increasing energy consumption. Regarding practical applications like zinc-air batteries and supercapacitors, electrode materials are essential and often require both porous networks and active species to enhance their electrochemical performance. Nitrogen-doped porous carbon (NPC) is a kind of promising material, which provides efficient active sites and large surface areas for energy conversion/storage applications. However, rational modulation of properties for maximizing NPC performance is still a challenge. Herein, a promising NPC material derived from natural biomass is successfully synthesized by following a stepwise preparation method. Physisorption and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses demonstrate both pore structures and nitrogen species of the NPC have been delicately tuned. The optimized sample NPC-800-m exhibits excellent performance in both oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and three-electrode supercapacitor measurement. Moreover, the homemade zinc-air battery and symmetric supercapacitor assembled with NPC-800-m also display outstanding energy and power density as well as durable stability. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations further confirm the synergistic effects among graphitic, pyridinic and pyrrolic nitrogen. The existence of multispecies of nitrogen combined with the optimized pore structure is the key to the high electrochemical performance for NPC-800-m. This work not only provides feasible and green synthetic methodology but also offers original insights into the effective pores and the synergistic effects of different nitrogen species in the NPC materials. (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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