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Molten-salt-templated fabrication of N, S co-doped hierarchically porous carbons for high-performance supercapacitors

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Heteroatom-doped porous carbons with hierarchical structures have been regarded as promising electrode materials for high-performance supercapacitors. Herein N, S co-doped hierarchically porous carbon (NSHPC) was synthesized by a molten-salt templated method using eutectic KCl/LiCl as the template, chitosan as the carbon/nitrogen source, and K2SO4 as the sulfur source, respectively. The as-prepared NSHPC exhibits a large specific surface area of 994.2 m2 g−1 with hierarchical pores of 1.6, 2.5, and 3.7 nm in diameter, as well as high heteroatom content with 4.5% of N and 10.2% of S elements. Consequently, the NSHPC electrode delivers high specific capacitances of 277 F g−1 at a scan rate of 25 mV s−1, and 195 F g−1 at a current density of 10 A g−1, and also retains a 48.9% retention when the current density is increased to 50 A g−1. Moreover, the electrode also remains 87.4% of initial capacitance after submitting 5000 charge/discharge cycles at 10 A g−1.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51673061 and 51973235) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. Grants CZP19001).

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    Shuyi Deng, Chengen He & Yingkui Yang

  2. Graphene R&D Center, Guangdong Xigu Tanyuan New Materials Corporation Limited & South-Central University for Nationalities, Foshan, 528000, China

    Chengen He, Shengqiang Qiu, Jinlong Zhang, Xianggang Wang & Yingkui Yang

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Deng, S., He, C., Qiu, S. et al. Molten-salt-templated fabrication of N, S co-doped hierarchically porous carbons for high-performance supercapacitors. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 10113–10122 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-03557-7

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