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Nitrogen-oxygen co-doped corrugation-like porous carbon for high performance supercapacitor

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Nitrogen-oxygen co-doped corrugation-like porous carbon (NO-PC) has been developed by direct pyrolysis of formaldehyde-melamine polymer containing manganese nitrate. The melamine, formaldehyde and manganese nitrate act as nitrogen, oxygen source and pore-foaming agent, respectively. NO-PC exhibits favorable porous architecture for efficient ion transfer and moderate heteroatom doping for additional pseudocapacitance, which synergistically enhances the electrochemical performance of the NO-PC-based supercapacitor. The electrode delivers specific capacitance of 240 F/g at 0.3 A/g when tested in 6 mol/L KOH electrolyte, good rate capability (capacitance retention of 83.3% at 5 A/g) as well as stable cycling performance (capacitance remains ~96% after 10000 cycles at 3 A/g). The facile synthesis with unique architecture and chemistry modification offers a promising candidate for electrode material of energy storage devices.

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This work was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (B2018203330).

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Yang, W., Yang, W., Kong, L. et al. Nitrogen-oxygen co-doped corrugation-like porous carbon for high performance supercapacitor. Front. Mater. Sci. 12, 283–291 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11706-018-0431-2

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