A scalable fabrication of 3D hierarchical porous carbon structure (3D-HPC) has been achieved via a simple sonochemical route at different pyrolysis temperatures. It is worth noting that all the 3D-HPC samples possess oxygen-functional groups after activation by KOH and self-doped by nitrogen, which are beneficial to improving their surface wettability as well as increasing the electro-active surface area between the electrode and the surrounding electrolyte, consequently enhancing their electrochemical performance. Remarkably, the resulting carbon sample pyrolyzed at 850 °C (AC-850) possesses a maximum doping level of 2.
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June 2019
Fe and H co-doped PANI/GO (graphene oxide) composites with different iron dopant ratio depending on the starting FeCl (GOPNI-1, GOPNI-2, GOPNI-3 and GOPNI-4) are prepared. The formations of composite samples are investigated by some characterization techniques such as XRD, ATR-IR, UV-Vis spectrophotometer and thermal properties by TGA. While, the Nitrogen adsorption/desorption isotherm for (GOPNI-3) shows high specific surface area 48.
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