Organic precursors for tailored synthesis of sulfur- and nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbons: a molecular design approach

Takashi Hamada; Hiroki Nara; Minjun Kim; Hirokatsu Miyata; Yusuke Yamauchi

doi:10.1039/d4cc00101j

Organic precursors for tailored synthesis of sulfur- and nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbons: a molecular design approach

Chem Commun (Camb). 2024 May 2;60(37):4914-4917. doi: 10.1039/d4cc00101j.

Authors

Takashi Hamada¹, Hiroki Nara², Minjun Kim³, Hirokatsu Miyata¹, Yusuke Yamauchi^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Materials Process Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan. hama@nagoya-u.jp.
² Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
³ Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland, Brisbane 389, Queensland 4072, Australia.
⁴ Department of Plant and Environmental New Resources, College of Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do, 17104, South Korea.

PMID: 38625117
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc00101j

Abstract

Insights into tailoring heteroatom-doped mesoporous carbon are provided for enhanced electrocatalytic properties. This study focuses on the design and synthesis of sulfur-doped mesoporous carbon using a sulfur-containing monomer with a chemical structure similar to dopamine. The resulting material achieves remarkable catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction.