Fabrication of high-pore volume carbon nanosheets with uniform arrangement of mesopores

Carbon nanosheets with a tunable mesopore size,large pore volume,and good electronic conductivity are synthesized via a solution-chemistry approach.In this synthesis,diaminohexane and graphene oxide (GO) are used as the structural directing agents,and a silica colloid is used as a mesopores template.Diaminohexane plays a crucial role in bridging silica colloid particles and GO,as well as initiating the polymerization of benzoxazine on the surfaces of both the GO and silica,resulting in the formation of a hybrid nanosheet polymer.The carbon nanosheets have graphene embedded in them and have several spherical mesopores with a pore volume up to 3.5 cm3·g-1 on their surfaces.These nuerous accessible mesopores in the carbon layers can act as reservoirs to host a high loading of active charge-storage materials with good dispersion and a uniform particle size.Compared with active materials with wide particle-size distributions,the unique proposed configuration with confined and uniform particles exhibits superior electrochemical performance during lithiation and delithiation,especially during long cycles and at high rates.