Ultrahigh Surface Area Three-Dimensional Porous Graphitic Carbon from Conjugated Polymeric Molecular Framework
Abstract
Porous graphitic carbon is essential for many applications such as energy storage devices, catalysts, and sorbents. However, current graphitic carbons are limited by low conductivity, low surface area, and ineffective pore structure. Here we report a scalable synthesis of porous graphitic carbons using a conjugated polymeric molecular framework as precursor. The multivalent cross-linker and rigid conjugated framework help to maintain micro- and mesoporous structures, while promoting graphitization during carbonization and chemical activation. The above unique design results in a class of highly graphitic carbons at temperature as low as 800 °C with record-high surface area (4073 m2 g–1), large pore volume (2.26 cm–3), and hierarchical pore architecture. Such carbons simultaneously exhibit electrical conductivity >3 times more than activated carbons, very high electrochemical activity at high mass loading, and high stability, as demonstrated by supercapacitors and lithium–sulfur batteries with excellent performance. Moreover, the synthesis can be readily tuned to make a broad range of graphitic carbons with desired structures and compositions for many applications.
- Authors:
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- Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 689-798, Korea
- National Laboratory of Microstructures (Nanjing), School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94205, United States
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1182211
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1214386
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Published Article
- Journal Name:
- ACS Central Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: ACS Central Science Journal Volume: 1 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2374-7943
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
To, John W. F., Chen, Zheng, Yao, Hongbin, He, Jiajun, Kim, Kwanpyo, Chou, Ho-Hsiu, Pan, Lijia, Wilcox, Jennifer, Cui, Yi, and Bao, Zhenan. Ultrahigh Surface Area Three-Dimensional Porous Graphitic Carbon from Conjugated Polymeric Molecular Framework. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1021/acscentsci.5b00149.
To, John W. F., Chen, Zheng, Yao, Hongbin, He, Jiajun, Kim, Kwanpyo, Chou, Ho-Hsiu, Pan, Lijia, Wilcox, Jennifer, Cui, Yi, & Bao, Zhenan. Ultrahigh Surface Area Three-Dimensional Porous Graphitic Carbon from Conjugated Polymeric Molecular Framework. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5b00149
To, John W. F., Chen, Zheng, Yao, Hongbin, He, Jiajun, Kim, Kwanpyo, Chou, Ho-Hsiu, Pan, Lijia, Wilcox, Jennifer, Cui, Yi, and Bao, Zhenan. 2015.
"Ultrahigh Surface Area Three-Dimensional Porous Graphitic Carbon from Conjugated Polymeric Molecular Framework". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5b00149.
@article{osti_1182211,
title = {Ultrahigh Surface Area Three-Dimensional Porous Graphitic Carbon from Conjugated Polymeric Molecular Framework},
author = {To, John W. F. and Chen, Zheng and Yao, Hongbin and He, Jiajun and Kim, Kwanpyo and Chou, Ho-Hsiu and Pan, Lijia and Wilcox, Jennifer and Cui, Yi and Bao, Zhenan},
abstractNote = {Porous graphitic carbon is essential for many applications such as energy storage devices, catalysts, and sorbents. However, current graphitic carbons are limited by low conductivity, low surface area, and ineffective pore structure. Here we report a scalable synthesis of porous graphitic carbons using a conjugated polymeric molecular framework as precursor. The multivalent cross-linker and rigid conjugated framework help to maintain micro- and mesoporous structures, while promoting graphitization during carbonization and chemical activation. The above unique design results in a class of highly graphitic carbons at temperature as low as 800 °C with record-high surface area (4073 m2 g–1), large pore volume (2.26 cm–3), and hierarchical pore architecture. Such carbons simultaneously exhibit electrical conductivity >3 times more than activated carbons, very high electrochemical activity at high mass loading, and high stability, as demonstrated by supercapacitors and lithium–sulfur batteries with excellent performance. Moreover, the synthesis can be readily tuned to make a broad range of graphitic carbons with desired structures and compositions for many applications.},
doi = {10.1021/acscentsci.5b00149},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1182211},
journal = {ACS Central Science},
issn = {2374-7943},
number = 2,
volume = 1,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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