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Ultrastable Carbazole-tethered Conjugated Microporous Polymers for High-Performance Energy Storage

Research Authors
Mostafa Ahmed, Mohammed G. Kotp, Tharwat Hassan Mansoure, Rong-Ho Leed, Shiao-Wei Kuo, Ahmed F. M. EL-Mahdy
Research Abstract

Conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) have considered as organic porous polymers featuring combination of p-conjugated skeletons with permanent micro-porosity. In the present study, we report the synthesis of carbazole-tethered conjugated microporous polymers, BC-Py-CMP and BC-BF-CMP, respectively, through the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling polymerization of the novel 3,3′,6,6′-tetraboronic-pinacolate-9,9′-bicarbazole (BC-4Bpin) with 1,3,6,8-tetrabromopyrene (Py-4Br) and 3,3′,6,6′-tetrabromo-9,9′-bifluorenylidene (BF-4Br). These CMPs exhibited extraordinary thermal stabilities (up to ca. 694 and 569 °C) and high surface areas (up to ca. 1030 m2 g−1). Moreover, the as-prepared BC-BF-CMP exhibited a high specific capacitance of 260 F g−1 at 0.5 A g−1 and showed outstanding cycling stability, having 89.60% capacitance retention of its authentic capacitance over 6000 cycles. The excellent electrochemical capacitances of the BC-BF-CMP were presumably due to the 9,9′-BF could easily accept one electron, causing the reduced form acquiring greater aromaticity by meeting Huckel's requirements, as a result improving the electron transporting properties. Such CMPs tend to have tremendous potential to be used as a high-performance supercapacitors in energy storage systems.

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Research Journal
Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
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Research Vol
333
Research Website
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387181122000877
Research Year
2022
Research Pages
111766-111774