RESEARCH ARTICLE

S-enriched porous polymer derived N-doped porous carbons for electrochemical energy storage and conversion

  • Chao Zhang 1 ,
  • Chenbao Lu 1 ,
  • Shuai Bi 1 ,
  • Yang Hou , 2 ,
  • Fan Zhang , 1 ,
  • Ming Cai 1 ,
  • Yafei He 1 ,
  • Silvia Paasch , 3 ,
  • Xinliang Feng 3,4 ,
  • Eike Brunner 3 ,
  • Xiaodong Zhuang 1
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  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites & Shanghai Key Lab of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • 3. Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
  • 4. Chair for Molecular Functional Materials, Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, School of Science, Technische Universität Dresden, Mommensenstr. 4, 01069 Dresden, Germany

Received date: 24 Feb 2018

Accepted date: 20 Mar 2018

Published date: 18 Sep 2018

Copyright

2018 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature

Abstract

Porous polymers have been recently recognized as one of the most important precursors for fabrication of heteroatom-doped porous carbons due to the intrinsic porous structure, easy available heteroatom-containing monomers and versatile polymerization methods. However, the heteroatom elements in as-produced porous carbons are quite relied on monomers. So far, the manipulating of heteroatom in porous polymer derived porous carbons are still very rare and challenge. In this work, a sulfur-enriched porous polymer, which was prepared from a diacetylene-linked porous polymer, was used as precursor to prepare S-doped and/or N-doped porous carbons under nitrogen and/or ammonia atmospheres. Remarkably, S content can sharply decrease from 36.3% to 0.05% after ammonia treatment. The N content and specific surface area of as-fabricated porous carbons can reach up to 1.32% and 1508 m2·g−1, respectively. As the electrode materials for electrical double-layer capacitors, as-fabricated porous carbons exhibit high specific capacitance of up to 431.6 F·g−1 at 5 mV·s−1 and excellent cycling stability of 99.74% capacitance retention after 3000 cycles at 100 mV·s−1. Furthermore, as the electrochemical catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction, as-fabricated porous carbons presented ultralow half-wave-potential of 0.78 V versus RHE. This work not only offers a new strategy for manipulating S and N doping features for the porous carbons derived from S-containing porous polymers, but also paves the way for the structure-performance interrelationship study of heteroatoms co-doped porous carbon for energy applications.

Cite this article

Chao Zhang , Chenbao Lu , Shuai Bi , Yang Hou , Fan Zhang , Ming Cai , Yafei He , Silvia Paasch , Xinliang Feng , Eike Brunner , Xiaodong Zhuang . S-enriched porous polymer derived N-doped porous carbons for electrochemical energy storage and conversion[J]. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2018 , 12(3) : 346 -357 . DOI: 10.1007/s11705-018-1727-6

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the financial support from NSFC for Excellent Young Scholars (51722304), NSFC (21720102002, 21574080 and 61306018), Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology (15JC1490500, 16JC1400703), Shanghai Pujiang Talent Programme (18PT1406100), and Open Project Program of the State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials (sklssm201732, Jilin University); State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry (2016-08, Jilin University); State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials (20161803, Xi’an Jiaotong University).

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