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Multifunctional Templating Strategy for Fabrication of Fe, N-Codoped Hierarchical Porous Carbon Nanosheets

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Due to the unique physical and chemical merits including excellent electrical conductivity, superior chemical stability, and tunable carbon framework, two-dimensional (2D) porous carbon nanosheets have drawn increasing research interest and demonstrated promising potentials in various applications. However, regulating the nanostructure of 2D porous carbon nanosheets by facile and efficient strategies remains a great challenge. Herein, we develop a new strategy to construct Fe, N-codoped hierarchical porous carbon nanosheets (Fe-N-HPCNS) by using 2D Fe-Zn layered double hydroxides (Fe-Zn-LDH) as multifunctional templates. Fe-Zn-LDH could functionalize not only as 2D structure directing agents but also as ternary hierarchical porogens for micro-, meso- and macropores and in situ Fe dopants. This multifunctional templating strategy toward 2D porous carbon nanosheets can improve the utilization of templates and shows great advantages against conventional procedures that additional porogens and/or dopants are often needed.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51925308 and 51872336), the Leading Scientific, Technical and Innovation Talents of Guangdong Special Support Program (No. 2017TX04C248), the Pearl River Talent Plan of Guangdong (No. 2017GC010612), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong (No. 2021A1515011617), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 20lgzd18), and the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (Nos. 202102021111 and 202002020041).

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    Yu-heng Lu, You-chen Tang, Ru-liang Liu, Chuan-fa Li, Shao-hong Liu, You-long Zhu & Ding-cai Wu

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Lu, Yh., Tang, Yc., Liu, Rl. et al. Multifunctional Templating Strategy for Fabrication of Fe, N-Codoped Hierarchical Porous Carbon Nanosheets. Chin J Polym Sci 40, 2–6 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-022-2656-x

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