Solution-Based Carbohydrate Synthesis of Individual Solid, Hollow, and Porous Carbon Nanospheres Using Spray Pyrolysis

A facile and scalable solution-based, spray pyrolysis synthesis technique was used to synthesize individual carbon nanospheres with specific surface area (SSA) up to 1106 m2/g using a novel metal-salt catalyzed reaction. The carbon nanosphere diameters were tunable from 10 nm to several micrometers...

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Published in:ACS nano 2013-12, Vol.7 (12), p.11156-11165
Main Authors: Wang, Chengwei, Wang, Yuan, Graser, Jake, Zhao, Ran, Gao, Fei, O’Connell, Michael J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adsorption
Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates - chemistry
Carbon
Carbon - chemistry
Catalysis
Current density
Drug Delivery Systems
Electrode materials
Electrodes
Metals - chemistry
Micrometers
Nanospheres
Nanospheres - chemistry
Nanostructure
Nanotechnology
Nanotubes, Carbon - chemistry
Oxides - chemistry
Particle Size
Porosity
Specific surface
Spray pyrolysis
Surface Properties
Synthesis (chemistry)
Temperature
Thermogravimetry
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Summary:A facile and scalable solution-based, spray pyrolysis synthesis technique was used to synthesize individual carbon nanospheres with specific surface area (SSA) up to 1106 m2/g using a novel metal-salt catalyzed reaction. The carbon nanosphere diameters were tunable from 10 nm to several micrometers by varying the precursor concentrations. Solid, hollow, and porous carbon nanospheres were achieved by simply varying the ratio of catalyst and carbon source without using any templates. These hollow carbon nanospheres showed adsorption of to 300 mg of dye per gram of carbon, which is more than 15 times higher than that observed for conventional carbon black particles. When evaluated as supercapacitor electrode materials, specific capacitances of up to 112 F/g at a current density of 0.1 A/g were observed, with no capacitance loss after 20 000 cycles.
ISSN:1936-0851
1936-086X
DOI:10.1021/nn4048759