A Gram Scale Soft-Template Synthesis of Heteroatom Doped Nanoporous Hollow Carbon Spheres for Oxygen Reduction Reaction.

ABSTRACT: Heteroatom-doped nanoporous carbon materials with unique hierarchical structures have been shown to be promising supports and catalysts for energy conversion; however, hard-template methods are limited by their inflexibility and time-consuming process. Soft-template methods have been suggested as an alternative, but they are limited by their picky requirements for stable reactions and the few known precursors for small-batch synthesis. In this study, a gram-scale soft-template-based silica-assisted method was investigated for producing nitrogen-doped hollow nanoporous carbon spheres (N-HNCS). Nitrogen doping is accomplished during preparation with enhanced electrocatalytic activity without complicating the methodology. To investigate the effect of the unique structural characteristics of N

SUBMITTER: Kang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10534767 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature