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Order-in-disordered ultrathin carbon nanostructure with nitrogen-rich defects bridged by pseudographitic domains for high-performance ion capture

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  • Mingxing Liang

    (Tongji University
    Kashi University
    Shenzhen University
    Shenzhen University)

  • Yifan Ren

    (Tongji University)

  • Jun Cui

    (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)

  • Xiaochen Zhang

    (Tongji University
    Shanghai Ocean University)

  • Siyang Xing

    (Tongji University
    Washington University in St. Louis)

  • Jingjing Lei

    (Tongji University)

  • Mengyao He

    (Shenzhen University)

  • Haijiao Xie

    (Hangzhou Yanqu Information Technology Co., Ltd.)

  • Libo Deng

    (Shenzhen University)

  • Fei Yu

    (Shanghai Ocean University)

  • Jie Ma

    (Tongji University
    Kashi University)

Abstract

Carbon materials with defect-rich structure are highly demanded for various electrochemical scenes, but encountering a conflict with the deteriorative intrinsic conductivity. Herein, we build a highway-mediated nanoarchitecture that consists of the ordered pseudographitic nanodomains among disordered highly nitrogen-doped segments through a supramolecular self-assembly strategy. The “order-in-disorder” nanosheet-like carbon obtained at 800 °C (O/D NSLC-800) achieves a tradeoff with high defect degree (21.9 at% of doped nitrogen) and compensated electrical conductivity simultaneously. As expected, symmetrical O/D NSLC-800 electrodes exhibit superior capacitive deionization (CDI) performance, including brackish water desalination (≈82 mgNaCl g−1 at a cell voltage of 1.6 V in a 1000 mg L−1 NaCl solution) and reusage of actual refining circulating cooling water, outperforming most of the reported state-of-the-art CDI electrodes. The implanted pseudographitic nanodomains lower the resistance and activation energy of charge transfer, which motivates the synergy of hosting sites of multiple nitrogen configurations. Our findings shed light on electrically conductive nanoarchitecture design of defect-rich materials for advanced electrochemical applications based on molecular-level modulation.

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  • Mingxing Liang & Yifan Ren & Jun Cui & Xiaochen Zhang & Siyang Xing & Jingjing Lei & Mengyao He & Haijiao Xie & Libo Deng & Fei Yu & Jie Ma, 2024. "Order-in-disordered ultrathin carbon nanostructure with nitrogen-rich defects bridged by pseudographitic domains for high-performance ion capture," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-50899-5
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50899-5
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