Self-Assembly Synthesis of N-Doped Carbon Aerogels for Supercapacitor and Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction

Junli Zhang; Gaoli Chen; Qian Zhang; Fei Kang; Bo You

doi:10.1021/acsami.5b01660

Self-Assembly Synthesis of N-Doped Carbon Aerogels for Supercapacitor and Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction

Junli Zhang, Gaoli Chen, Qian Zhang, Fei Kang, Bo You^*

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Abstract

The rational design of high-performance and cheap nanomaterials for multiple sustainable energy storage applications is extremely urgent but remains challenging. Herein, a facile commercial melamine-sponge-directed multicomponent surface self-assembly strategy has been reported to synthesize N-doped carbon aerogels (NCAs) with low density (0.01 g cm^-3), large open pores, and high surface area (1626 m² g^-1). The commercial melamine sponge simultaneously serves as a green N source for N-doping and a 3D scaffold to buffer electrolytes for reducing ion transport resistance and minimizing ion diffusion distance. With their tailored architecture characteristics, the NCAs-based supercapacitor and oxygen reduction electrocatalyst show excellent performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	12760-12766
Number of pages	7
Journal	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume	7
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b01660
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

carbon aerogels
electrocatalysis
nitrogen doping
oxygen reduction
supercapacitor

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