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Published on: June 12, 2018
Fabrication of Porous Nanonetwork-Structured Carbons from Well-Defined Cylindrical Molecular Bottlebrushes
Xidong Lin1, Guojun Xie2, Shaohong Liu1
1Materials Science Institute, PCFM Lab and GDHPRC Lab, School of Chemistry , Sun Yat-sen University , Guangzhou 510275 , P. R. China.
Abstract:
Atom transfer radical polymerization was utilized to prepare well-defined cylindrical molecular bottlebrushes which were employed as building blocks and transformed into porous nanonetwork-structured carbons (PNSCs) via hypercross-linking chemistry and shape-regulated carbonization. The as-prepared PNSCs exhibited a unique nanomorphology-tunable characteristic by simply varying carbonization conditions. Because of their three-dimensional network nanomorphologies with well-developed hierarchical porous structures and conductive carbon framework, the PNSCs demonstrated excellent electrochemical performance in lithium-sulfur batteries.
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