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Porous N self-doped carbon materials for high-performance supercapacitors via nanosized silica template combined with pyrolysis method

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Advanced carbon with tunable priority and composition have been considered as the promising component for electrode materials of high-performance supercapacitor. Herein, the nitrogen self-doped porous carbon materials (NPCM) are fabricated via a one-step pyrolysis using 4,4′-bis (3,4-dicyanophenoxy) biphenyl (BPh) and nanosized silica as the precursor and sacrificial template, respectively. It was found that the obtained NPCM showed moderate specific surface area (550.5 m2 g−1) with nitrogen content of 2.1 at.%. Meanwhile, the electrode material based on the prepared NPCM exhibited great specific capacitance of 248 F g−1 at current density of 1 A g−1. The great capacitive performance is mainly due to the interaction of the following two factors: (i) the appropriate pore structure that facilitates the ion adsorption and transportation; (ii) the C–O, C=O, and N-6 functional groups derived from heteroatom doping, which contribute to increase pseudocapacitance active sites. Thanks to its tunable porosity and electrochemical properties, the novel NPCM electrode materials can have a promising prospect in the application to high-performance supercapacitors.

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The authors are thankful for the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51603029, 51773028 and 51903029), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M623001), and National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (BX201700044).

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    Yaqi Chen, Lifen Tong, Guo Lin, Weixi Zhang, Qinglin Zeng & Xiaobo Liu

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Chen, Y., Tong, L., Lin, G. et al. Porous N self-doped carbon materials for high-performance supercapacitors via nanosized silica template combined with pyrolysis method. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 2774–2783 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-05026-7

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