Carbon nanotube (CNT) has been intensively studied as supercapacitor electrode materials due to their high mechanical strength and excellent electrical conductivity. However, CNT with limited accessible surface area has low specific capacitance, which limits its application and development in supercapacitor. Herein, we have designed a thin N-doped porous carbon layer-modified CNT nanocomposite by template-free method. In this process, 3-aminophenol and formaldehyde rapidly self-assemble on the CNT in the presence of cationic surfactant CTAB, forming the composite of 3-aminophenol/formaldehyde (3-AF) resin and CNT. Due to the different polymerization degree of inside 3-AF resin, the soluble 3-AF resin oligomer was removed by acetone to form porous 3-AF resin and CNT@N-doped porous carbon (CNT@N-PC) was obtained by annealing process. The CNT@N-PC exhibited abundant porous structure, high specific surface area of 940 m 2 g −1 , excellent specific capacitance value of 224 F g −1 at 1 A g −1 and good cycle stability, demonstrating its potential as supercapacitor electrode materials.
Cheng Feng,Yunhui Hao,Li Zhang,Ningzhao Shang,Shutao Gao,Zhi Wang,Chun Wang
Formic acid (FA) has tremendous potential as a safe and convenient source of hydrogen for renewable energy storage, but controlled and efficient dehydrogenation of FA by a robust solid catalyst constitutes a major challenge. In this report, a metal nanoparticle functionalized zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) derived N-decorated nanoporous carbon (NPC) support was fabricated and used as an efficient FA decomposition catalyst for the first time. The resultant AgPd@NPC catalyst exhibited 100% H2 selectivity and high catalytic activity (TOF = 936 h−1) toward the dehydrogenation of formic acid at 353 K. The synergetic interaction between the metal nanoparticles and NPC greatly enhances the catalytic performance of the as-prepared catalyst.