EDTA-Assisted Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanospheres with Uniform Sizes for Photonic and Electrocatalytic Applications

Jeskey, Jacob; Chen, Yidan; Kim, Sujin; Xia, Younan

doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00341

Title: EDTA-Assisted Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanospheres with Uniform Sizes for Photonic and Electrocatalytic Applications

Journal Article · 28 March 2023 · Chemistry of Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00341 · OSTI ID:1967548

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Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States); Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States)

We report a robust method for the facile synthesis of N-doped carbon nanospheres with uniform and tunable sizes. Instead of involving a surfactant or other templates, this synthesis relies on the incorporation of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) into the emulsion droplets of phenolic resin oligomers. The EDTA provides a high density of surface charges to effectively increase the electrostatic repulsion between the droplets and thereby prevent them from coalescing into irregular structures during polymerization-induced hardening. The EDTA-loaded polymer nanospheres are highly uniform in terms of both size and shape for easy crystallization into opaline structures. While maintaining good uniformity, the diameters of the resultant N-doped carbon nanospheres can be readily tuned from 100 to 375 nm, allowing for the fabrication of opaline lattices with brilliant structural colors. The EDTA also serves as an additional nitrogen source to promote the formation of graphitic-N, making the N-doped carbon nanospheres highly active, metal-free bifunctional electrocatalysts toward oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions.

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Research Organization:: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Contributing Organization:: Georgia Institute of Technology. Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-05ER15731

OSTI ID:: 1967548

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1969279; OSTI ID: 2008043

Journal Information:: Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 35, Issue 7; ISSN 0897-4756

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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