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Hierarchical porous electrospun carbon nanofibers with nitrogen doping as binder-free electrode for supercapacitor

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Nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous electrospun carbon nanofibers (HPECNFs) were successfully prepared via electrospinning using ball-milled SBA-15 [well-ordered hexagonal mesoporous silica structures (Zhao et al., in Science 279(5350):548)] as hard template. As expected, ball milling enhances the dispersion of the SBA-15 template in the precursor of electrospinning, which makes the obtained HPECNFs to have a well-balanced distribution of the micro-, meso- and marco-pores. The HPECNFs exhibit free-standing structures, high specific surfaces and rich nitrogen-containing groups derived from pyrolysis of polyacrylonitrile (PAN), which boost the electrochemical performance of HPECNFs considerably. As a binder-free electrode material, the HPECNFs display a high capacitance of 250 F g−1 at the current density of 0.5 A g−1 as well as excellent rate capability (132.5 F g−1 at 50 A g−1) and super cycling stability (negligible loss after 5000 cycles). Moreover, in a symmetric device, the supercapacitor device shows the highest energy density of 12.91 Wh kg−1 at the power density of 325 W kg−1.

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This work was supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC) and MOE (IRT13R30).

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  1. Institute of New Catalytic Materials Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, 38 Tongyan Road, Haihe Education Park, Tianjin, 300350, People’s Republic of China

    Sihao Yan, Chenguang Tang, Zhao Yang, Xuemin Wang, Hang Zhang, Cui Zhang & Shuangxi Liu

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    Sihao Yan, Chenguang Tang, Zhao Yang, Xuemin Wang, Hang Zhang, Cui Zhang & Shuangxi Liu

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    Sihao Yan, Chenguang Tang, Zhao Yang, Xuemin Wang, Hang Zhang, Cui Zhang & Shuangxi Liu

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Yan, S., Tang, C., Yang, Z. et al. Hierarchical porous electrospun carbon nanofibers with nitrogen doping as binder-free electrode for supercapacitor. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 16247–16259 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-04173-1

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