Fabrication of chiral mesoporous carbonaceous nanofibers and their electrochemical energy storage. (20th September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sun, Huayan; Wang, Qing; Geng, Hongbo; Li, Baozong; Li, Yi; Wu, Qi-Hui; Fan, Jingmin; Yang, Yonggang
• Is Part Of: Electrochimica acta. Volume 213(2016)
• Page Start: 752
• Page End: 760
• Publication Date: 2016-09-20
• Subjects: Mesoporous structure -- Chiral carbon nanofibers -- Supercapacitor -- Lithium-ion storage; Electrochemistry -- Periodicals; Electrochemistry, Industrial -- Periodicals; 541.37
• DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.08.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-4686

Abstract

Abstract: Chiral carbon-based nanomaterials possess many superior properties originated both from their nano-sized structure and their chirality. We presented a facile way to synthesize chiral mesoporous carbonaceous nanofibers (chiral MCNFs) through a supramolecular templating method, using a pair of chiral low-molecular-weight gelators as the templates, resorcinol, formaldehyde and tetraethyl orthosilicate as the precursors, respectively. Besides, the chiral MCNFs exhibited optical activity; the electrochemical measurements implied that they also showed good capacitance and lithium-ion storage performances.