Abstract
In this proof of concept study on the synthesis of ionic liquid (IL)-derived multimodal porous carbon using ionic clusters of different sizes as porogens, the carbonization behaviors of binary IL mixtures of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide (EMIM-dca) and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (EMIM-Tf2N) were systematically investigated to demonstrate the formation of multimodal porous carbons with hierarchical structures originating from the ionic cluster porogens. The multimodal porous structures of the resulting IL-derived porous carbons were characterized based on the quenched solid density functional theory, and the role of the ionic clusters as porogens is discussed. From the viewpoint of green and sustainable chemistry, the IL-based synthesis using ionic clusters as porogens is a simple, effective, and sustainable technique for synthesizing multimodal porous carbons with hierarchical structures. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study demonstrating that a multimodal porous structure of IL-derived porous carbons could be systematically manipulated with the aid of ionic clusters of different sizes as porogens.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 14672-14681 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Nanoscale |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 38 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 Oct 14 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Materials and Components Technology Development Program of the MOTIE/KEIT [10062226, ‘Development of a high-capacitance (0.2 F cm−2) edge-exposed graphene electrode and high-voltage (3.5 V) polymer electrolyte for a flexible supercapacitor’]. This research was also kindly supported by the Energy Technology Development Project (ETDP), funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (20172410100150). This research was supported by Forest Science & Technology Projects (Project No. 2017053C101719BB02) and by Priority Research Centers Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0020141).
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© 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Materials Science(all)