A Bottom-up Strategy to Prepare New Carbon Rich Materials

Energy is the key to our future.Whether to the production,storage or use of energy,carbon materials could provide a good solution.They are closely related to people’s daily life and regarded as one of the most promising candidates for the flexible electrodes in energy storage devices.Recently,a research team from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences prepared a

The preparation of whole sp-C composed alkyne rich carbon materials

For the high content of sp-hybridized carbon atoms,carbyne based materials can express superior conductivity and ultra-high theoretical capacity,which are key factors of high-performance anode.However,the poor stability of synthetic intermediates and unwanted side reactions lead to huge challenge to synthesis carbyne alternating carbon–carbon triple and single bonds.Here,we rationally designed a smart“Greedy Snake”strategy to synthesize the alkyne rich carbon materials named Si capped alkyne rich carbon(Si-Alkyne-C)which comprised of sp-hybridized carbon atoms.The as-prepared Si-Alkyne-C generated on the copper surface through a carbon–carbon coupling,in which Si can effectively protect the intermediates generated by the reaction.The C–Si bond can constantly generate copper-alkyne intermediates to couple with other terminal alkynes to continuously elongate like"Greedy Snake",forming a long alkyne chain structure.The as-prepared Si-Alkyne-C can be applied as anode electrodes,exhibited very high reversible capacity of up to 2776 mAh/g at a current density of 50 mA/g and an average capacity around 1202 mAh/g at a high current density of 5000 mA/g for 5000 cycles,which are the best results among the reported carbon materials and better than many other anode materials.These results not only provide a facile strategy to prepare carbyne based materials,but also open a broad avenue for the preparation of high-capacity anode materials.