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Synthesis and Performance Characterizations of Transition Metal Single Atom Catalyst for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Published on: April 10, 2018
The high-efficiency coupling of a Ni2+ coordinated/uncoordinated pyridine N-COF self-supporting nanofilm as an
Jia Zhang1, Zihao Zhang1, Xuteng Xing1
1College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang 050018, China. xtxing@hebust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A large-area COFTAPB-BPY film with a pore size of 3.9 nm was prepared on a gas-liquid interface by the virtue of the limiting and guiding functions of sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate, followed by modification by Ni2+ ions with the reversible redox reaction of Ni(II/III), where Ni2+ was evidently anchored on the N in BPY. The obtained COFTAPB-BPY and Ni-COFTAPB-BPY nanofilms could avoid the inevitable aggregation and stacking of bulk COFTAPB-BPY, which facilitated a high specific capacitance of 0.26 mF cm-2 for the COFTAPB-BPY nanofilm and 0.38 mF cm-2 for the Ni-COFTAPB-BPY nanofilm at 0.001 mA cm-2. Considering the pseudocapacitance and double-layer capacitance traits of Ni-COFTAPB-BPY and COFTAPB-BPY nanofilms, the asymmetric Ni-COFTAPB-BPY//COFTAPB-BPY film supercapacitor was assembled with a symmetric COFTAPB-BPY//COFTAPB-BPY film device as a control. The asymmetric Ni-COFTAPB-BPY//COFTAPB-BPY film supercapacitor could enhance the energy density of 273.9 mW h cm-3 at 14.09 W cm-3 from 85.2 mW h cm-3 at 4.38 W cm-3 for the symmetric COFTAPB-BPY//COFTAPB-BPY film device. This work provides a new perspective on the application of self-supporting COF nanofilms as film asymmetric supercapacitors.
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