Electrochemical performance of the existing state-of-the art capacitors is not very high, key scientific barrier is that its charge storage mechanism wholly depends on adsorption of electrolyte on electrode. We present a novel method for the synthesis of nitrogen -doped porous carbons and address the drawback by precisely controlling composition and surface area. Nitrogen-doped porous carbon was synthesized using a self-sacrificial template technique without any additional nitrogen and carbon sources. They exhibited exceptionally high capacitance (239 Fg-1) due to additional pseudocapacitance originating from doped nitrogen. Cycling tests showed no obvious capacitance decay even after 10,000 cycles, which meets the requirement of commercial supercapacitors. Our method is simple and highly efficient for the production of large quantities of nitrogen-doped porous carbons.
Revised: October 9, 2014 |
Published: May 28, 2014
Citation
Jeon J., R. Sharma, P. Meduri, B.W. Arey, H.T. Schaef, J. Lutkenhaus, and J.P. Lemmon, et al. 2014.In Situ One-Step Synthesis of Hierarchical Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon for High Performance Supercapacitors.ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6, no. 10:7214-7222.PNNL-SA-99833.doi:10.1021/am500339x