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N-Doped Carbon Nanofibrous Film with Unique Wettability, Enhanced Supercapacitive Property, and Facile Capacity to Demulsify Surfactant Free Oil-in-water Emulsions

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Electrospinning and calcination technique have been combined to fabricate N-doped carbon nanofibers(N-CNFs) by introducing amino grafted few-layered hexagonal boron nitride (amino@BN) into polyacrylonitrile(PAN) matrix as filler followed by carbonization. For the high N-doping level(10.7%, atomic fraction) with the final product, the as-prepared N-CNFs exhibit interesting surface wettability(superamphiphilicity in air and underwater oleophilicity). Moreover, compared with pristine PAN derived carbon nanofibers(marked as CNFs), N-CNFs exhibit higher graphic structure under fixed carbonizing temperature as well. Taking these advantages aforementioned, the as-prepared N-CNFs exhibit good specific capacitance(ca. 200.1 F/g) without activation treatment at the current density of 0.5 A/g in three-electrode configuration, which is about 149% that of CNFs(ca. 134 F/g). What’s more, our N-CNFs also display the unexpected capacity to demulsify diverse surfactant free oil-in-water emulsions by simple filtration in large scale with the high water flux ca.(23578±150) L·m−2·h−1

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.52073238), the Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploration of Southwest Petroleum University, China(Nos. PLN2018-06, PLN2020-19) and the Fund of the Sichuan Provincial University Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Field Materials, China(Nos.X151518KCL04, X151518KCL07).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, P. R. China

    Ruifang Wang & Zhenyu Li

  2. Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, P. R. China

    Ruifang Wang, Lei Wang & Zhenyu Li

  3. Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Geelong/Melbourne, Australia

    Weiwei Lei & Jingyu Chen

  4. Chengdu Evermaterials Co., Ltd., Chengdu, 610500, P. R. China

    Zhenyu Li & Jingyu Chen

  5. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Clean Energy and Pollutant Control, School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, P. R. China

    Zhenzhong Hu

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Wang, R., Lei, W., Wang, L. et al. N-Doped Carbon Nanofibrous Film with Unique Wettability, Enhanced Supercapacitive Property, and Facile Capacity to Demulsify Surfactant Free Oil-in-water Emulsions. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ. 37, 436–442 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40242-021-0434-x

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