Bottom-up wet-chemical synthesis of a two-dimensional porous carbon material with high supercapacitance using a cascade coupling/cyclization route

Xu, Yongjie and Sprick, Reiner Sebastian and Brownbill, Nick J. and Blanc, Frédéric and Li, Qingyin and Ward, John W. and Ren, Shijie and Cooper, Andrew I. (2021) Bottom-up wet-chemical synthesis of a two-dimensional porous carbon material with high supercapacitance using a cascade coupling/cyclization route. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9 (6). pp. 3303-3308. ISSN 2050-7488 (https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ta11649a)

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Abstract

Wet-chemical bottom-up synthesis methods for two-dimensional (2D) layered materials are less explored than the top-down exfoliation of bulk materials. Here, we set out to synthesize a graphyne-type material by a wet-chemical synthesis method using Sonogashira-Hagihara cross-coupling polycondensation of a multifunctional monomer,2, bearing alkyne and vinyl bromide functionalities. Spectroscopic and chemical analysis revealed that upon C-C bond formation, an unanticipated Bergman cyclization occurred to give an aromatic 2D porous carbon material (2D-PCM).2D-PCMis a black material with graphene-like layers and a bulk structure that is similar to irregular graphite. It is porous with a hierarchical pore structure and an apparent Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area of 575 m2g−1. The material has excellent electrochemical performance as an electrode in supercapacitors with a specific capacitance of 378 F g−1at the current density of 0.1 A g−1, which surpasses state-of-the-art carbon materials, suggesting that wet-chemical methods might give functional benefits over top-down processing routes.

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Xu, Yongjie, Sprick, Reiner Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5389-2706, Brownbill, Nick J., Blanc, Frédéric, Li, Qingyin, Ward, John W., Ren, Shijie and Cooper, Andrew I.;
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