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Porous yolk–shell-structured carbon nanospheres for electrochemical energy storage

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Yolk–shell-structured nanospheres have attracted potential applications in various fields due to their unique structural properties, which combines the advantages of mesoporous carbon and hollow structure. Herein, uniform porous yolk–shell carbon nanospheres (PYCNs) were obtained through a two-step coating employing resorcinol–formaldehyde (RF) resin spheres as a core, which is widely used due to its low-cost, high carbon residue and stability. The pre-formed RF spheres cores were subsequently coated with double shells of compact silica layer and polybenzoxazine/silica (PB/SiO2) hybrid in sequence, in which the intermediate silica layer and the silica from PB/SiO2 hybrid layer were subsequently etched off to create gap of yolk–shell structure and mesopore of shell for PYCNs. The resultant PYCNs possessed uniform spherical morphology with yolk–shell structure, mesoporous shell and a certain of N-doping, which endows it with a better electrochemical performance in supercapacitor than that of solid carbon spheres derived from RF spheres pyrolysis directly.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (21676070), Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Hebei Province Introduction of Foreign Intelligence Projects (2018).

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  1. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Haixia Wu & Yongqi Hu

  2. College of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, 050018, China

    Yuming Qin & Aibing Chen

  3. Institute for the Development of Energy for African Sustainability (IDEAS) Research Unit, University of South Africa (UNISA), Florida Science Campus, Private Bag X6, Johannesburg, 1710, South Africa

    Shuang Zong, Morena S. Xaba & Xinying Liu

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Wu, H., Qin, Y., Zong, S. et al. Porous yolk–shell-structured carbon nanospheres for electrochemical energy storage. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 13321–13329 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-03885-8

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