Hierarchically Porous Carbon Materials from Self-Assembled Block Copolymer/Dopamine Mixtures

Hierarchically porous carbon materials with interconnected frameworks of macro- and mesopores are desirable for electrochemical applications in biosensors, electrocatalysis, and supercapacitors. In this study, we report a facile synthetic route to fabricate hierarchically porous carbon materials by controlled macro- and mesophase separation of a mixture of polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene) and dopamine. The morphology of mesopores is tailored by controlling the coassembly of PS-b-PEO and dopamine in the acidic tetrahydrofuran-water cosolvent. HCl addition plays a critical role via enhancing the charge-dipole interactions between PEO and dopamine and suppressing the clustering and chemical reactions of dopamine in solution. As a result, subsequent drying can produce interpenetrated PS-b-PEO/DA mixtures without forming dopamine microsized crystallites. Dopamine oxidative polymerization induced by solvent annealing in NH4OH vapor enables the formation of percolating macropores. Subsequent pyrolysis to selectively remove the PS-b-PEO template from the complex can produce hierarchically porous carbon materials with interconnected frameworks of macro- and mesopores when pyrolysis is implemented at a low temperature or when DA is a minor component.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids - 36(2020), 40 vom: 13. Okt., Seite 11754-11764

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Septani, Cindy M [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chen-An [VerfasserIn]
Jeng, U-Ser [VerfasserIn]
Su, Yu-Chia [VerfasserIn]
Ko, Bao-Tsan [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Ya-Sen [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 27.10.2020

Date Revised 27.10.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01431

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315265868