Surfactant induced self-assembly to prepare a vanadium nitride/N,S co-doped carbon high-capacitance anode material

Tianqi He; Qiuping Zhao; Qianghong Wu; Junlei Zhang; Fen Ran

doi:10.1039/d1cc04143f

Surfactant induced self-assembly to prepare a vanadium nitride/N,S co-doped carbon high-capacitance anode material

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Oct 5;57(79):10246-10249. doi: 10.1039/d1cc04143f.

Authors

Tianqi He¹, Qiuping Zhao², Qianghong Wu¹, Junlei Zhang¹, Fen Ran¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, School of Material Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, P. R. China. ranfen@lut.edu.cn.
² School of Petrochemical Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, Gansu, P. R. China.

PMID: 34528042
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc04143f

Abstract

The mechanism of the reaction of melamine (C₃H₆N₆) with ammonium metavanadate and the critical role of the surfactant in this reaction were investigated. The results indicate that the complex is obtained via the reaction of C₃H₆N₆ with VO₃- after the elimination of -NH₂, and the surfactant can modulate the microstructure. In addition, a vanadium nitride/N,S co-doped carbon material fabricated from the above complex exhibits a specific capacitance of 422.0 F g^-1 at 0.5 A g^-1. This method provides a new route for the synthesis of vanadium nitride/carbon materials.