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A General Synthetic Strategy Towards Highly Doped Pyridinic Nitrogen-Rich Carbons
Posted:2020-10-09 08:03    Column:2021

X.L. Mou, J.X. Ma, S.H. Zheng, X.K. Chen , F. Krumeich, R. Hauert, R.H. Lin,* Z-S Wu,* and Y.J. Ding*

Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 2006076.

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202006076 [PDF]

Doping carbon materials with p‐block elements such as nitrogen is an effective approach to tune electronic properties of the framework and can endow the host's new characters. To date, highly doped carbons with tunable nitrogen speciation are still less explored due to the grand challenge in fabrication; for example, the typical synthesis based on the pyrolysis of nitrogen‐containing precursors shows a trade‐off between the total nitrogen content and the carbonization temperature, limiting the value to ≈12 wt% at 1073 K. Herein, intensifying ring opening of cross‐linked polymers through controlled pre‐oxidation followed by conventional pyrolysis is demonstrated as an elegant method to circumvent this challenge. In addition to fine tunability at different nitrogen speciation, this strategy can increase the nitrogen content by two‐ to threefold (maximum ≈22 wt%) and shows general viability in six different N‐bearing (co)polymers. The highly doped pyridinic nitrogen‐rich carbons show i) a remarkable capacity of 879 mAh g−1at 0.1 A g−1and excellent cycling performance in lithium ion batteries, and ii) significantly boosted catalytic performance in the selective oxidation of diverse substrates. Therefore, this facile synthetic strategy and the tunability at nitrogen functionalities will greatly broaden the applications of this new class of functional materials.

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