Highly nitrogen and sulfur dual-doped carbon microspheres for supercapacitors.

Sci Bull (Beijing)

Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China; Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China. Electronic address:

Published: July 2017

Heteroatom doping, especially dual-doped carbon materials have attracted much attention for the past few years, and have been regarded as one of the most efficient strategies to enhance the capacitance behavior of porous carbon materials. In this work, a facile two-step synthetic route was developed to fabricate nitrogen and sulfur co-doped carbon microsphere (NSCM) by using thiourea as dopant. The N/S doping content is controlled via varying the carbonization temperature. It has been proved that a suitable quantity of N and S groups could not only provide pseudo-capacitance but also promote the electron transfer for carbon materials, which ensures the further utilization of the exposed surfaces for charge storage. The optimized NSCM prepared at a carbonization temperature of 800°C (NSCM-800) achieves a capacitance of 277.1Fg at a current density of 0.3Ag in 6.0molL KOH electrolyte, which is 71% higher than that of undoped carbon microsphere. Besides, NSCM-800 shows an excellent cycling stability, 98.2% of the initial capacitance is retained after 5,000 cycles at a current density of 3.0Ag.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2017.06.001DOI Listing

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