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Nature Research, Nature Communications, 1(8), 2017

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13592

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Synthesis of single-crystal-like nanoporous carbon membranes and their application in overall water splitting

Journal article published in 2017 by Hong Wang, Shixiong Min, Chun Ma, Zhixiong Liu, Weiyi Zhang, Qiang Wang, Debao Li, Yangyang Li, Stuart Turner ORCID, Yu Han ORCID, Haibo Zhu, Edy Abou-Hamad, Mohamed Nejib Hedhili ORCID, Jun Pan, Weili Yu ORCID and other authors.
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Abstract

AbstractNanoporous graphitic carbon membranes with defined chemical composition and pore architecture are novel nanomaterials that are actively pursued. Compared with easy-to-make porous carbon powders that dominate the porous carbon research and applications in energy generation/conversion and environmental remediation, porous carbon membranes are synthetically more challenging though rather appealing from an application perspective due to their structural integrity, interconnectivity and purity. Here we report a simple bottom–up approach to fabricate large-size, freestanding and porous carbon membranes that feature an unusual single-crystal-like graphitic order and hierarchical pore architecture plus favourable nitrogen doping. When loaded with cobalt nanoparticles, such carbon membranes serve as high-performance carbon-based non-noble metal electrocatalyst for overall water splitting.