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Heteroatom (N or N‐S)‐Doping Induced Layered and Honeycomb Microstructures of Porous Carbons for CO 2 Capture and Energy Applications
Author(s) -
Tian Wenjie,
Zhang Huayang,
Sun Hongqi,
Suvorova Alexandra,
Saunders Martin,
Tade Moses,
Wang Shaobin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201603937
Subject(s) - materials science , heteroatom , chemical engineering , microstructure , methanol , adsorption , carbon fibers , pyrolysis , thiourea , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , composite material , ring (chemistry) , chemistry , composite number , engineering
Increasing global challenges such as climate change, environmental pollution, and energy shortage have stimulated the worldwide explorations into novel and clean materials for their applications in the capture of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, and toxic pollutants, energy conversion, and storage. In this study, two microstructured carbons, namely N‐doped pillaring layered carbon (NC) and N, S codoped honeycomb carbon (NSC), have been fabricated through a one‐pot pyrolysis process of a mixture containing glucose, sodium bicarbonate, and urea or thiourea. The heteroatom doping is found to induce tailored microstructures featuring highly interconnected pore frameworks, high sp 2 ‐C ratios, and high surface areas. The formation mechanism of the varying pore frameworks is believed to be hydrogen‐bond interactions. NSC displays a similar CO 2 adsorption capacity (4.7 mmol g −1 at 0 °C), a better CO 2 /N 2 selectivity, and higher activity in oxygen reduction reaction as compared with NC‐3 (the NC sample with the highest N content of 7.3%). NSC favors an efficient four‐electron reduction pathway and presents better methanol tolerance than Pt/C in alkaline media. The porous carbons also exhibit excellent rate performance as supercapacitors.