The effect of nitrogen on the synthesis of porous carbons by iron-catalyzed graphitization †

Hunter, Robert D., Hayward, Emily C., Smales, Glen J., Pauw, Brian R., Kulak, A., Guan, Shaoliang and Schnepp, Zoe 2023. The effect of nitrogen on the synthesis of porous carbons by iron-catalyzed graphitization †. Materials Advances 4 (9) , pp. 2070-2077. 10.1039/d3ma00039g

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Abstract

This paper reports a systematic study into the effect of nitrogen on iron-catalyzed graphitization of biomass. Chitin, chitosan, N-acetylglucosamine, gelatin and glycine were selected to represent nitrogen-rich saccharides and amino-acid/polypeptide biomass precursors. The materials were pyrolyzed with an iron catalyst to produce carbons with a wide range of chemical and structural features such as mesoporosity and nitrogen-doping. Many authors have reported the synthesis of nitrogen-doped carbons by pyrolysis and these have diverse applications. However, this is the first systematic study of how nitrogen affects pyrolysis of biomass and importantly the catalytic graphitization step. Our data demonstrates that nitrogen inhibits graphitization but that some nitrogen survives the catalytic graphitization process to become incorporated into various chemical environments in the carbon product.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI) Chemistry
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, Start Date: 2023-03-22
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN:	2633-5409
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 April 2023
Date of Acceptance:	15 March 2023
Last Modified:	08 Jun 2023 13:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159051

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