Template Induced Fabrication of Nitrogen Doped Carbon Sheets as Electrode Materials in Supercapacitors

Authors

Tao HUANG, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;
Guang-zhi TAO, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;
Chong-qing YANG, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;
Deng LU, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;
Lie MA, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;
Dong-qing WU, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;Follow

Corresponding Author

Dong-qing WU(wudongqing@sjtu.edu.cn)

Abstract

Due to the good electrical conductivity, high specific surface area, and excellent chemical/mechanical stability, carbon nanomaterials with two-dimensional morphology have gradually become the hot topic of the research on supercapacitors. Herein, we report for the first time the fabrication of nitrogen doped carbon sheets (NCSs). In our approach, the sheet-like magnisum aluminum (MgAl) layered double hydroxide was used as the hard template, which was mixed with o-phenylene diamine and iron chloride. The following thermal treatment could render the polymerization and carbonization of o-phenylene diamine. The NCSs with ordered hexagonal architectures were formed by final etching process of the thermally treated mixture. The morphology, structure, graphitic degree, nitrogen content and surface area of the as-prepared NCSs could be adjusted by the temperatures of the thermal treatment. More importantly, the NCSs exhibited outstanding electrochemical performances as the electrode materials in supercapacitors. Among the NCSs, the sample obtained from 600 ^oC (NCS-600) achieved a capacity of 290.0 F·g^-1 at a current density of 0.5 A·g^-1. After 10,000 cycles at 1 A·g^-1, the NCS-600 still retained 83% of its initial capacity, indicating high cycling stability.

Graphical Abstract

Keywords

two-dimensional materials, nanocarbon materials, nitrogen doped carbon sheets, template induced method, supercapacitor

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.13208/j.electrochem.170345

Publication Date

2017-10-28

Online Available Date

2017-05-16

Revised Date

2017-05-14

Received Date

2017-04-12

Recommended Citation

Tao HUANG, Guang-zhi TAO, Chong-qing YANG, Deng LU, Lie MA, Dong-qing WU. Template Induced Fabrication of Nitrogen Doped Carbon Sheets as Electrode Materials in Supercapacitors[J]. Journal of Electrochemistry, 2017 , 23(5): 604-609.
DOI: 10.13208/j.electrochem.170345
Available at: https://jelectrochem.xmu.edu.cn/journal/vol23/iss5/8

References

[1] Aricò, A. S., Bruce, P., Scrosati, B., Tarascon, J. M., Van Schalkwijk, W. Nanostructured materials for advanced energy conversion and storage devices [J]. Nature Materials, 2005, 4(5), 366-377.

[2] Dunn, B., Kamath, H., Tarascon, J. M. Electrical energy storage for the grid: a battery of choices [J]. Science, 2011, 334(6058), 928-935.

[3] Simon, P., Gogotsi, Y. Materials for electrochemical capacitors [J]. Nature Materials, 2008, 7(11), 845-854.

[4] Peng, X., Peng, L., Wu, C., Xie, Y. Two dimensional nanomaterials for flexible supercapacitors [J]. Chemical Society Reviews, 2014, 43(10), 3303-3323.

[5] Frackowiak, E., Beguin, F. Carbon materials for the electrochemical storage of energy in capacitors [J]. Carbon, 2001, 39(6), 937-950.

[6] González, A., Goikolea, E., Barrena, J. A., Mysyk, R. Review on supercapacitors: technologies and materials [J]. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016, 58, 1189-1206.

[7] Müller, E. A., Gubbins. K. E., Molecular simulation study of hydrophilic and hydrophobic behavior of activated carbon surfaces [J]. Carbon, 1998, 36(10), 1433-1438.

[8] Cote, L. J., Kim, F., Huang, J. Langmuir ˆ’ blodgett assembly of graphite oxide single layers [J]. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131(3), 1043-1049.

[9] Wang, X., Li, X., Zhang, L., Yoon, Y., Weber, P. K., Wang, H., Guo, J., Dai, H. N-doping of graphene through electrothermal reactions with ammonia [J]. Science, 2009, 324(5928), 768-771.

[10] Guo, B., Liu, Q., Chen, E., Zhu, H., Fang, L., Gong, J. R. Controllable N-doping of grapheme [J]. Nano Letters, 2010, 10(12), 4975-4980.

[11] Wang, C., Huang, Y., Pan, H., Jiang, J., Yang, X., Xu, Z., Tian, H., Han,S., Wu, D. Nitrogen-doped porous carbon/graphene aerogel with much enhanced capacitive behaviors [J]. Electrochimica Acta, 2016, 215, 100-107.

[12] Huang, T., Yang, C., Wang, X., Qiu, F., Jing, F., Jiang, J., Liu, R., Han, S., Wu, D. Sacrificial templating fabrication of hierarchically porous nitrogen‐doped carbon nanosheets as superior oxygen reduction electrocatalysts[J]. ChemNanoMat, 2017, 3(2), 130-134.

[13] Zhu, H., Wang, X., Liu, X., Yang, X. Integrated synthesis of poly (o-phenylenediamine) derived carbon materials for high performance supercapacitors [J]. Advanced Materials, 2012, 24(48), 6524-6529.

[14] Lu, Y., Zhang, F., Zhang, T., Leng, K., Zhang, L., Yang, X., Ma, Y., Huang, Y., Zhang, M., Chen, Y. Synthesis and supercapacitor gerformance studies of N-doped graphene materials using o-phenylenediamine as the double-N precursor [J]. Carbon, 2013, 63, 508-516.

[15] Lu, Y., Zhu, Z., Liu, Z. Carbon-encapsulated Fe nanoparticles from detonation-induced pyrolysis of ferrocene [J]. Carbon, 2005, 43(2), 369-374.

[16] Jiang, B., Tian, C., Wang, L., Sun, L., Chen, C., Nong, X., Qiao, Y., Fu, H. Highly concentrated, stable nitrogen-doped graphene for supercapacitors: simultaneous doping and reduction [J]. Applied Surface Science, 2012, 258(8), 3438-3443.

[17] Wen, Z., Wang, X., Mao, S., Bo, Z., Kim, H., Cui, S., Lu, G., Feng, X., Chen, J. Crumpled nitrogen‐doped graphene nanosheets with ultrahigh pore volume for high‐performance supercapacitor [J]. Advanced Materials, 2012, 24(41), 5610-5616.