Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 577, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151721
Keywords
N-doped carbon; Porous carbon; Fluorination; Bonding; Doping
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- I-Site CAP2025, Universite Clermont Auvergne via the Academie CAP2025
- Clermont Auvergne Metropole via the Academie CAP2025
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This paper investigates the gas/solid fluorination of various types of N-doped porous carbons, observing that the process affects the porosity of the materials, especially the micropores. A new N1s peak and a dual C-F bonding structure were identified in all fluorinated N-doped porous carbons.
Porous carbons are used in various applications for energy storage. Nitrogen doping of these carbons modifies their electrochemical and chemical properties and co-doping them with fluorine atoms, appears as a promising route to further tailor their physical and chemical properties. The present paper focuses on the gas/solid fluorination with molecular fluorine (F2) of various types of N-doped porous carbons. The consequences of the fluorination on the porosity of these materials were studied as well as their C-F bonding type. Mild conditions avoid a huge decomposition in F2 gas of these materials and a drastic decrease of their specific surface area. Micropores, which are hosting most of the FeNx catalytic sites, are the most affected by fluorination, and a new N1s XPS peak assigned to pyridinic-N-C-F has been identified, coinciding with that of the XPS binding energy of N1s in FeNx. However, molecular fluorine did not react directly with nitrogen atoms in these materials, whatever their type since no N-F containing volatile products were evolved during the treatment. Finally, a dual C-F bonding, characterized by the coexistence of C-F bonds with weakened covalence and covalent C-F, is evidenced in all fluorinated N-doped porous carbons.
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