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A three-in-one strategy for facile fabrication of hierarchically porous n-doped carbons: enhanced CO2 capture and tetracycline removal

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The formation of high-quality hierarchically porous N-doped carbons with multi-scale pores, high specific surface area and large pore volume generally suffers from multistep complicated procedures. It still remains a great challenge to develop facile and effective approaches. Here, a novel three-in-one strategy (synergistic self-templating, self-activation and in-situ N-doping) was designed to fabricate hierarchically porous N-doped carbons (HPNCs) directly, via a one-pot carbonization using ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid tripotassium salt dehydrate (EDTA-3K) as the sole starting material. The as-obtained HPNCs exhibited 3D porous architecture, very high BET surface areas (e.g., 2787 m2 g−1), rich porosity and good nitrogen doping amounts, resulting in good CO2 capture capacity (e.g., 5.80 mmol g−1, at 273 K and 1.0 bar), and tetracycline adsorption ability (e.g., 1092 mg g−1). This discovery can provide a new concept for simply fabricating well-defined and unique functional porous carbons for various applications, such as sensor, energy storage and conversion, adsorption, separation, catalysis, bio-medicine, environmental protection.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21676127 and 21776110), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20170532, BK20160568 and BK20160501), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M620194), Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds (1701023A), and Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province, China (17KJB430011).

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Yang, J., Dai, J., He, J. et al. A three-in-one strategy for facile fabrication of hierarchically porous n-doped carbons: enhanced CO2 capture and tetracycline removal. J Porous Mater 27, 1755–1763 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-020-00946-5

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