Preparation method of heteroatom-doped porous carbon electrode material
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of electrode materials of supercapacitors, in particular to a preparation method of a heteroatom-doped porous carbon electrode material for a supercapacitor.
Background
With the gradual depletion of global fossil energy and the increasing severity of environmental problems, the development and utilization of new energy has attracted high attention from countries in the world. Efficient energy storage and conversion devices are the key to new energy utilization, so that novel electrochemical energy devices such as super capacitors, fuel cells and lithium batteries become the current research hotspots. In these electrochemical energy devices, the electrode material is a key factor affecting the performance.
Porous carbon materials are considered to be the most potential electrode materials due to their large specific surface area, tunable pore structure, good electrical conductivity, and more electrochemically active sites for many redox reactions. At present, the development of porous carbon materials focuses on two aspects of regulation and control of pore structures and heteroatom doping, which are also fundamental factors influencing the application performance of the porous carbon materials. Heteroatom doping is an effective method for improving the performance of the porous carbon electrode material. For example, the porous carbon is doped with a proper amount of heteroatoms such as N, B, P, S, the specific capacitance of the porous carbon material can be improved by utilizing the pseudocapacitance formed by the redox reaction of the heteroatoms, and the doping of the heteroatoms can also improve the conductivity, improve the wettability of the surface of the carbon material and further improve the capacitance performance of the carbon material. In electrocatalysis, non-metallic heteroatoms with different electronegativities are doped into a carbon electrode material, so that the electrical neutrality of a carbon sp2 hybridization orbital can be destroyed, electrons of surrounding carbon are redistributed, and the electrocatalysis performance is improved.
At present, research on heteroatom doped porous carbon is active, and the heteroatom doping mainly comprises two methods, namely in-situ doping and post-treatment doping. In-situ doping refers to directly carbonizing a carbon precursor rich in heteroatoms at high temperature to obtain heteroatom-doped porous carbon in one step; the post-treatment doping is to perform impregnation and oxidation treatment on the porous carbon, or to place the porous carbon in gas containing heteroatoms, such as ammonia gas, and react at high temperature to obtain the heteroatom-doped porous carbon. In-situ doping facilitates uniform incorporation of heteroatoms into porous carbon, but currently there are fewer precursors suitable for preparing in-situ doped porous carbon, while there are fewer precursors containing 2 different heteroatoms. The post-treatment doping process is generally tedious and time-consuming, and usually only functionalizes the porous carbon surface without changing the bulk structure. Therefore, the development of a new method for preparing heteroatom-doped porous carbon with simple and controllable process is still a challenging subject.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the defects and provides a preparation method of a heteroatom-doped porous carbon electrode material.
A preparation method of a heteroatom-doped porous carbon electrode material comprises the following steps:
(1) uniformly mixing acrylamide, N' -methylene bisacrylamide, sodium alginate, a comonomer containing heteroatoms and water to obtain a mixed solution, introducing nitrogen to remove oxygen, and adding an initiator to initiate a polymerization reaction to obtain hydrogel;
(2) and (3) freeze-drying the hydrogel to obtain dry gel, carbonizing the dry gel, and washing and drying to obtain the heteroatom-doped porous carbon electrode material.
In the step (1), the mass ratio of the acrylamide to the N, N' -methylene bisacrylamide to the sodium alginate to the heteroatom-containing comonomer to the water is 0.02-0.1: 0.002-0.015: 0-0.02: 0-0.1: 1, and more preferably 0.03-0.06: 0.002-0.008: 0.008-0.012: 0.03-0.06: 1.
Further, in the step (1), the comonomer containing the heteroatom is selected from any one or a mixture of more than two of 3- (4-pyridyl) acrylic acid, 3- (2-thienyl) acrylic acid, 4-vinyl phenylboronic acid or phosphoenolpyruvate cyclohexylammonium salt in any proportion.
Further, in the step (1), the amount of the initiator is 1-6% of the total mass of the acrylamide and the comonomer containing the heteroatom.
Further, in the step (1), the initiator is one of potassium persulfate, ammonium persulfate or a water-soluble oxidation-reduction initiation system, and the water-soluble oxidation-reduction initiation system is selected from any one of potassium persulfate-sodium sulfite, potassium persulfate-sodium bisulfite, ammonium persulfate-sodium sulfite or ammonium persulfate-sodium bisulfite water-soluble oxidation-reduction initiation system.
Further, in the step (1), when the initiator is potassium persulfate or ammonium persulfate, the reaction temperature is 65-75 ℃, and the reaction time is 2-5 hours; when the initiator is a water-soluble oxidation-reduction initiation system, the reaction temperature is 20-30 ℃, and the reaction time is 2-5 h.
Further, in the step (2), the carbonization is carried out in the atmosphere of nitrogen, the carbonization temperature is 700-1000 ℃, and the time is 2-4 h.
The preparation principle of the heteroatom-doped porous carbon is as follows: according to the invention, acrylamide and comonomer containing heteroatom are used as reactants, N, N '-methylene bisacrylamide is used as a cross-linking agent, sodium alginate is used as a viscosity regulator of a reaction system, acrylamide, comonomer containing heteroatom, N, N' -methylene bisacrylamide and sodium alginate are mixed with water to form a uniform solution before polymerization, and an initiator is added to initiate free radical polymerization. As the polymerization proceeds, a hydrogel gradually forms. Because the copolymer gel contains the heteroatoms, the heteroatoms are doped in the porous carbon in the high-temperature carbonization process.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
(1) the gel is formed by copolymerizing the monomer containing the heteroatom and acrylamide, so that the heteroatom is uniformly distributed in the copolymer gel, and the uniform doping of the carbonized heteroatom in the porous carbon is ensured.
(2) The content of the heteroatoms in the porous carbon can be conveniently regulated and controlled by changing the amount of the added comonomer containing the heteroatoms.
(3) Monomers containing different heteroatoms are copolymerized, so that various heteroatom-codoped porous carbons can be prepared.
(4) The prepared porous carbon has good specific capacitance, and the mass specific capacitance can reach 260F/g when the current density is 0.5A/g.
Detailed Description
In order that the objects and advantages of the invention will be more clearly understood, the following description is given in conjunction with the accompanying examples. It is to be understood that the following text is merely illustrative of one or more specific embodiments of the invention and does not strictly limit the scope of the invention as specifically claimed.
Example 1
A preparation method of a heteroatom-doped porous carbon electrode material comprises the following steps:
(1) uniformly mixing 0.36g of acrylamide, 0.04g N, N' -methylene bisacrylamide, 0.10g of sodium alginate and 9.0g of water to obtain a mixed solution, introducing nitrogen into the mixed solution to remove oxygen for half an hour, adding 10mg of potassium persulfate (dissolved in 1mL of water), and reacting in a water bath at 70 ℃ for 2 hours to obtain hydrogel;
(2) and (3) freeze-drying the hydrogel to obtain dry gel, carbonizing the dry gel for 2 hours at 800 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere, and washing and drying to obtain the porous carbon electrode material.
The porous carbon material prepared by the method has the N content of 6.8 atm%, and when the charge-discharge current density is 0.5A/g, the specific capacitance is 208.2F/g.
Example 2
A preparation method of a heteroatom-doped porous carbon electrode material comprises the following steps:
(1) uniformly mixing 0.24g of acrylamide, 0.04g N, N' -methylene bisacrylamide, 0.10g of sodium alginate, 0.12g of 3- (4-pyridyl) acrylic acid and 9.0g of water to obtain a mixed solution, introducing nitrogen into the mixed solution to remove oxygen for half an hour, adding 10mg of ammonium persulfate (dissolved in 1mL of water), and reacting in a water bath at 70 ℃ for 4 hours to obtain hydrogel;
(2) and (3) freeze-drying the hydrogel to obtain dry gel, carbonizing the dry gel for 2 hours at 800 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere, and washing and drying to obtain the porous carbon electrode material.
The porous carbon material prepared by the method has the N content of 8.2 atm%, and when the charge-discharge current density is 0.5A/g, the specific capacitance is 229.6F/g.
Example 3
A preparation method of a heteroatom-doped porous carbon electrode material comprises the following steps:
(1) uniformly mixing 0.24g of acrylamide, 0.04g N, N' -methylene bisacrylamide, 0.10g of sodium alginate, 0.12g of 3- (2-thienyl) acrylic acid and 9.0g of water to obtain a mixed solution, introducing nitrogen into the mixed solution to remove oxygen for half an hour, adding 10mg of ammonium persulfate (dissolved in 1mL of water), and reacting in a water bath at 70 ℃ for 4 hours to obtain hydrogel;
(2) and (3) freeze-drying the hydrogel to obtain dry gel, carbonizing the dry gel for 2 hours at 800 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere, and washing and drying to obtain the porous carbon electrode material.
The porous carbon material prepared by the method is simultaneously doped with N and S, the N content is 4.8 atm%, the S content is 3.2 atm%, and when the charge-discharge current density is 0.5A/g, the specific capacitance is 216.9F/g.
Example 4
A preparation method of a heteroatom-doped porous carbon electrode material comprises the following steps:
(1) uniformly mixing 0.24g of acrylamide, 0.04g N, N' -methylene bisacrylamide, 0.10g of sodium alginate, 0.12g of 4-vinyl phenylboronic acid and 9.0g of water to obtain a mixed solution, introducing nitrogen into the mixed solution to remove oxygen for half an hour, adding 10mg of ammonium persulfate (dissolved in 1mL of water), and reacting in a water bath at 70 ℃ for 4 hours to obtain hydrogel;
(2) and (3) freeze-drying the hydrogel to obtain dry gel, carbonizing the dry gel for 2 hours at 800 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere, and washing and drying to obtain the porous carbon electrode material.
The porous carbon material prepared by the method is simultaneously doped with N and B, the N content is 6.0 atm%, the B content is 4.9 atm%, and when the charge-discharge current density is 0.5A/g, the specific capacitance is 260.0F/g.
Example 5
A preparation method of a heteroatom-doped porous carbon electrode material comprises the following steps:
(1) uniformly mixing 0.24g of acrylamide, 0.04g N, N' -methylene bisacrylamide, 0.10g of sodium alginate, 0.12g of phosphoenolpyruvate cyclohexylammonium pyruvate salt and 9.0g of water to obtain a mixed solution, introducing nitrogen into the mixed solution to remove oxygen for half an hour, adding 10mg of ammonium persulfate (dissolved in 1mL of water), and reacting in a water bath at 70 ℃ for 4 hours to obtain hydrogel;
(2) and (3) freeze-drying the hydrogel to obtain dry gel, carbonizing the dry gel for 2 hours at 800 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere, and washing and drying to obtain the porous carbon electrode material.
The porous carbon material prepared by the method is simultaneously doped with N and P, the N content is 6.2 atm%, the P content is 4.2 atm%, and when the charge-discharge current density is 0.5A/g, the specific capacitance is 241.8F/g.
Example 6
The preparation process was the same as in example 1 except that the carbonization temperature was 700 ℃.
The prepared porous carbon material has the N content of 10.1 atm%, and the specific capacitance of 220.8F/g when the charge-discharge current density is 0.5A/g.
Example 7
The preparation process was the same as in example 1 except that the carbonization temperature was 900 ℃.
The prepared porous carbon material has the N content of 3.9 atm%, and the specific capacitance of 186.4F/g when the charge-discharge current density is 0.5A/g.
Example 8
The preparation process was the same as in example 1 except that the carbonization temperature was 1000 ℃.
The prepared porous carbon material has the N content of 2.6 atm%, and the specific capacitance of 173.1F/g when the charge-discharge current density is 0.5A/g.
Example 1 is different from examples 6 to 8 only in the carbonization temperature, and as can be seen from the results of the measurement of the heteroatom content and the capacitance performance, the carbonization temperature is an important factor affecting the heteroatom content, and the higher the carbonization temperature is, the lower the heteroatom content gradually decreases.
In summary, the invention discloses a preparation method of heteroatom-doped porous carbon, and gel formed by copolymerization of acrylamide and a heteroatom-containing monomer is used as a carbon source in the method, so that uniform and controllable doping of heteroatoms in the porous carbon can be conveniently realized.
The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the present invention and do not limit the technical solutions described in the present invention; thus, while the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted; all such modifications and variations are intended to be included herein within the scope of this disclosure and the present invention and protected by the following claims.