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Synthesis of carbon materials with extremely high pyridinic-nitrogen content and controlled edges from aromatic compounds with highly symmetric skeletons

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2023, 33(4), pp.1279-1301
  • DOI : 10.1007/s42823-023-00482-7
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
  • Received : December 14, 2022
  • Accepted : February 8, 2023
  • Published : June 1, 2023

Taguchi Taisei 1 Gohda Syun 2 Gotoh Kazuma 3 Sato Satoshi 1 Yamada Yasuhiro 1

1Chiba University
2Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
3Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

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ABSTRACT

Selective doping of pyridinic nitrogen in carbon materials has attracted attention due to its significant properties for various applications such as catalysts and electrodes. However, selective doping of pyridinic nitrogen together with controlling skeletal structure is challenging in the absence of catalysts. In this work, four precursors including four fused aromatic rings and pyridinic nitrogen were simply carbonized in the absence of catalysts in order to attain mass synthesis at low cost and a high percentage of pyridinic nitrogen in carbon materials with controlled edges. Among four precursors, dibenzo[f,h]quinoline (DQ) showed an extremely high percentage of pyridinic nitrogen (96 and 86%) after heat treatment at 923 and 973 K, respectively. Experimental spectroscopic analyses combined with calculated spectroscopic analyses using density functional theory calculations unveiled that the C-H next to the pyridinic nitrogen in DQ generated gulf edge structures with controlled pyridinic nitrogen after carbonization. By comparing the reactivities among the four precursors, three main factors required for maintaining the pyridinic nitrogen in carbon materials with controlled edges, such as (1) high thermal stability of the pyridinic nitrogen, (2) the presence of one pyridinic nitrogen in one ring, and (3) the formation of gulf edges including pyridinic nitrogen to protect the pyridinic nitrogen by the C-H groups on the gulf edges, were revealed.

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