The qualitative and quantitative nitrogen-doping strategy for carbon materials is reported here. Novel porous nanocarbon networks pyrimidine-graphdiyne (PM-GDY) and pyridine-graphdiyne (PY-GDY) films with large areas were successfully prepared. These films are self-supported, uniform, continuous, flexible, transparent, and quantitively doped with merely pyridine-like nitrogen (N) atoms through the facile chemical synthesis route. Theoretical predictions imply these N doped carbonaceous materials are much favorable for storing lithium (Li)-ions since the pyridinic N can enhance the interrelated binding energy. As predicted, PY-GDY and PM-GDY display excellent electrochemical performance as anode materials of LIBs, such as the superior rate capability, the high capacity of 1168 (1165) mA h g-1 at current density of 100 mA g-1 for PY-GDY (PM-GDY), and the excellent stability of cycling for 1500 (4000) cycles at 5000 mA g-1 for PY-GDY (PM-GDY).
Keywords: controllable nitrogen doping; excellent electrochemical performance; pyridine graphdiyne; pyrimidine graphdiyne; theoretical prediction.