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Nitrogen-enriched Nanoporous Polytriazine for High Performance Supercapacitor Application Monika Chaudhary, Arpan Kumar Nayak, Raeesh Muhammad, Debabrata Pradhan, and Paritosh Mohanty ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/ acssuschemeng.7b04254 • Publication Date (Web): 20 Mar 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on March 22, 2018

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Nitrogen-enriched Nanoporous

Polytriazine

for

High

Performance

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Supercapacitor Application

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Monika Chaudhary,† Arpan Kumar Nayak,‡ Raeesh Muhammad,† Debabrata Pradhan‡ and

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Paritosh Mohanty†*

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Uttarakhand-247667, INDIA

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*E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Functional Materials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee,

Materials Science Centre, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal-721302, INDIA

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ABSTRACT: Polytriazine with high nitrogen content (c.a. 50.5 wt%) has been

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synthesized by an ultrafast microwave assisted method using melamine and cyanuric

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chloride. The nitrogen enriched nanoporous polytriazine (NENP-1) has exhibited high

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specific surface area (maximum SABET of 838 m2 g-1) and narrow pore size

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distribution. The NENP-1 has been employed as electrode materials for supercapacitor

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applications. A maximum specific capacitance (Csp) of 1256 F g-1 @1 mV s-1 and 656

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F g-1 @1 A g-1 estimated from the cyclic voltammetry (CV) and galvanostatic

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charge/discharge

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configuration. This Csp value is considered as very high for non-metallic system

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(organic polymer). Superior capacitance retention of 87.4 % of its initial Csp was

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observed after 5000 cycles at a current density of 5 A g-1 demonstrates its potential as

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efficient electrode material for practical applications. To test this claim, an asymmetric

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supercapacitor device (ASCD) was fabricated. The Csp of the device in the two

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electrode configuration are 567 F g-1 @5 mV s-1 and 287 F g-1 @4 A g-1 in the CV and

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GCD measurements, respectively. The ASCD has shown superior energy density and

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power density of 102 Wh kg-1 and 1.6 kW kg-1, respectively, at the current density of 4

(GCD)

measurements,

respectively,

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electrodes

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A g-1. The energy density is much higher than the best reported supercapacitors and

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also close to the commercial batteries. This indicates the material could bridge the gap

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between the commercial batteries and supercapacitors.

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Keywords: Nitrogen enriched polymer, Polytriazine, Microwave-assisted synthesis, Energy

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density, Supercapacitor, Ragone plot

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Introduction

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High surface area nanoporous organic polymers with high nitrogen content have got

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tremendous interest of late because of their applications in gas storage, energy storage,

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semiconductors, catalysis, photocatalysis, and electrocatalytic properties.1-6 These nitrogen

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enriched framework materials have shown great potential to tune the applications, especially,

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in the gas storage and electrochemical supercapacitors.1,2 The lone pair of electrons in

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nitrogen can act as Lewis base and plays very important role in electrochemical applications

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by manipulating the formation of the electrical double layers.7-10 It remains a great challenge

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to synthesize nitrogen enriched nanoporous polymers (NENPs) with the high surface area by

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rationally designing at molecular scale using cheap reagents.11 The major challenges for

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synthesizing these materials being finding appropriate precursors and reaction conditions so

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that thermodynamically unfavorable high surface area nanoporous materials could be

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produced.12 Some of the notable synthetic strategies adopted were condensation method,

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solvothermal synthesis and cyclotrimerization approaches.13-15

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The high power density, excellent reversibility, operation at wide temperature ranges

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by supercapacitors have attracted numerous research groups to explore the research area with

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various objectives, such as; (i) designing the electrode materials starting from molecular

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architecture, (ii) find out appropriate electrolytes and (iii) designing the devices.16-18 Among

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these, the research on electrode materials is in the forefront.16,19 Carbonaceous electrode

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materials are considered as most widely explored electrode materials, however, the low 2 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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energy density limited their applications.20 In order to improve the energy density issue,

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emphasis was given to enhance the capacitance of supercapacitors.21 As most of the modern

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day supercapacitors are based on the electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) concept,

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synthesizing materials with superior textural properties such as high specific surface area

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(SA) and controlled pore size distribution (PSD) is desirable.22-24 Moreover, the introduction

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of heteroatoms, such as N, S and P etc. in the high surface area materials is an additional

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advantage.2,25,26 Many of the above expected properties could be realized by synthesizing

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NENPs with controlled PSD and high SA. Some of the recently explored porous organic

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polymers (POPs) showing good supercapacitor applications are HCPANIs, TaPa-Py COF,

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DAAQ-TFP COF, TpDAB and Aza-CMPs.25-30 Among these POPs, high surface area

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polytriazines stand out due to their high nitrogen content. The highest N content reported in

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the NENPs so far is 53.27 wt%.31 In some of the recent reports, N was also doped in the

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porous carbon frameworks to enhance the supercapacitor applications.32

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In this investigation, the condensation of inexpensive melamine and cyanuric chloride

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is carried out keeping in mind the high nitrogen content in both due to the presence of triazine

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rings and their ability to form three dimensional frameworks.33-36 An additional advantage

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being the ease of condensation due to the facile nucleophilic substitution reaction between

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cyanuric chloride and melamine owing to the presence of easily removable chloride groups in

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cyanuric chloride.36 The synthesized NENP-1 was employed as an electrode material for

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supercapacitor application.

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Experimental Section

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Equimolar mixture of melamine (99 %, Sigma Aldrich, India) and cyanuric chloride (99 %,

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Sigma Aldrich, India) were condensed in DMSO using a microwave reactor in the presence

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of triethylamine (Fisher Scientific, India) as proton absorber. Typically, 1 mmol of each of the

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reactants condensed at 140 °C in 20 ml of DMSO with a microwave power of 400 W and

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reaction time of 30 min. The synthesized white fluffy product was filtered and washed with

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distilled water and dried. The specimen was designated as NENP-1.

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The obtained specimen was investigated by FTIR (Perkin Elmer SpectrumTwo

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spectrophotometer) and cross polarization magic angle spinning (CP-MAS) 13C NMR spectra

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(JEOL Resonance JNM-ECX-400II). XPS analysis was conducted on PHI 5000 Versa Probe

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III. XRD pattern was obtained using Rigaku Ultima IV with CuKα source. The microstructure

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of the specimen was studied by FESEM (TESCAN MIRA3) and TEM (TECNAI G2S-

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TWIN). The elemental analysis (C/H/N/S) was conducted using Thermo Flash 2000. TGA

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was performed on EXSTAR TG/DTA6300. The N2 sorption was carried out using Autosorb-

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iQ2 (Quantachrome Instruments, USA).

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The conductivity measurement was carried out using Nanomagnetics ezHEMS. The

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electrochemical analysis was performed by cyclic voltammetry (CV), galvanostatic charge-

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discharge (GCD) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) techniques in CHI 760D

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electrochemical workstation. A three-electrode configuration mode with active material

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modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE), Pt wire, and saturated calomel electrode were used

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as working, counter and reference electrodes, respectively. 0.1 M H2SO4 was used as an

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electrolyte for the electrochemical studies. Prior to preparation of the working electrode, the

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GCE surface was cleaned using a slurry of alumina powder and performing ultrasonication

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for 30 min. The active material slurry was prepared by dispersing 5 µl of PTFE (5 wt% of

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ethanol) and 5 mg of NENP-1 in ethanol (5 mg ml−1) through ultrasonication for 30 min. 50

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µl of the slurry was drop casted on the GCE surface and allowed to dry for overnight at 60 °C

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for the electrochemical investigation. Asymmetric supercapacitor device (ASCD) was

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fabricated using commercially available Whatman 54 filter paper, active material, and

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activated carbon, as separator, negative and positive electrode material, respectively. First, the

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active material slurry was prepared by mixing either active material or activated carbon and 5

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µl of PTFE (5 wt% of ethanol) in 9:1 mass ratio using ethanol (5 mg ml−1) with the help of

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ultrasonication for 30 min. The as-prepared slurries were then drop casted individually on the

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graphite sheet of 0.5×0.5 cm2 area and dried at 60 °C for overnight. The graphite sheet coated

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with active material and activated carbon was used as negative and positive electrodes,

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respectively. The specific capacitance (Csp) was calculated from CV curves measured at

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various scan rates using equation: ∫    

 =  ν ∆

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(1)

 

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where, Csp is specific capacitance (F g−1), I is current (A), m is the mass of active

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material (g), ν is the scan rate (mV s−1), and ∆V is the potential window (V).

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The Csp from GCD curve was calculated using the below given equation (2):  =

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∆

(2)

∆

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where I stand for applied current, ∆V represents the potential window and ∆t signifies

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discharge time (s) and m denotes the mass of active material (g).

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The energy density and power density of ASCD was calculated using equation (3)37,38 and

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 =   

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 = ∆ 







(3)





(4)

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where, E is the energy density (Wh kg−1), Csp is specific capacitance (F g−1), ∆V is the

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potential window (V), P is power density (kW kg−1) and ∆t is the discharge time.

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Results and Discussion

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Successful condensation of melamine and cyanuric chloride under the irradiation of

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microwave yields product as per the Scheme S1, which has been confirmed by the

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MAS NMR and FTIR spectroscopic investigation. A strong signal at 166.7 ppm in the

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CP-MAS NMR spectrum in Figure 1a originated from the carbon of the triazine ring 5 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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confirms the condensation. Observation of a small signal at 153 ppm may be attributed to the

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side group functionalities originated from cyanuric chloride (Figure S1). Further, the

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observation of only broadband (instead of multiple bands observed for primary amine) above

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3350 cm-1 in the FTIR spectrum (Figure 1b) along with the absence of the band at 850 cm-1

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due to the C-Cl stretching vibration further corroborate the NMR results. The elemental

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composition estimated from the CHNSO analysis reveals the high nitrogen content of 50.5

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wt% in the specimen (C:37.9, N:50.5, H:2.4, S:1.6). Further, the chemical environment of the

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elements present in the specimen was studied using XPS (Figure S2). To analyse the detailed

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chemical states of C and N elements, their high resolution XPS scan were also recorded. The

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high-resolution C 1s scan given in Figure 1(c) shows the peaks at 284.7, 285.7 and 288.1 eV.

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The peak at 285.7 eV is assigned to sp2-C of the triazine ring.32,41-43 The peaks at 284.7 and

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288.1 eV are ascribed to trapped DMSO, oxidized carbon and graphitic impurity arises from

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the carbon tape used for XPS investigation (Figure S3).42,43 The high-resolution N 1s XPS

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spectra shown in Figure 1d reveals the peaks at 398.4 and 399.7 eV originated primarily due

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to pyridine (N6) and pyrrolic (N5) types of nitrogen, respectively (Figure 1d).32,41-43 As

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documented earlier, the higher N contents enhance the chemical wettability of the electrode

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materials. The N5 type of nitrogen provides higher pseudo-capacitance by participating in

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redox reaction as compared to other types of nitrogen.41-43 The high nitrogen content of 50.5

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wt% along with the higher N5 (62.4 at%) type as compared to N6 (32.7 at%) type could be a

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direct bearing on the electrochemical supercapacitor applications.

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Nearly spherical inter-grown nanoparticles of the average size of 220 nm could be

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seen in the FESEM image (Figure 1e). The TEM image (Figure 1f) further reveals the porous

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nature of the specimen with the pore size in the range of 2 to 6 nm. The XRD (Figure S4) and

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SAED pattern inset of Figure 1d confirm the amorphous nature of the specimen. NENP-1

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166.7 HN

# - Triethylamine

NH

N N

N #

HN

∗- Side bands

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Cyanuric chloride

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Figure 1. (a)

C CPMAS NMR spectrum, (b) FT-IR spectra (c) High resolution C1s XPS

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spectra (d) High resolution N1s XPS spectra (e) FE-SEM image and (f) HRTEM images of

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NENP-1 (inset: SAED).

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The N2 sorption isotherm measured at 77 K as shown in Figure 2(a) is a type-I

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isotherm with sharp uptake at low-pressure region indicate the microporous nature of the

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specimen. Additionally, narrow hysteresis was extended from low to high-pressure range

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infers a hierarchical pore structure with the presence of both micro and mesopores, which

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was further confirmed from the PSD [Figure 2(b)]. The nanopores centered at 1.6 nm

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(micropore) and 3.8 nm (mesopore) can be seen in the PSD. The BET (SABET) and Langmuir 7 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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(SALang) specific surface areas were estimated to be 838 and 1102 m2 g-1, respectively (Figure

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S6), with a total pore volume of 0.65 cm3 g-1. 25 20 15 10

Adsorption Desorption

5 0 0.0

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(a)

Surface Area (m 2 g -1 )

Gas Uptake (mmol g -1)

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0.4

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0.8

1.0

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(b)

100

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Pore width (nm)

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Figure 2. Gas sorption studies of NENP-1: (a) N2 sorption isotherm measured at 77 K, (b)

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DFT pore size distribution estimated from N2 isotherm.

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The observation of large specific surface area, narrow PSD and high N content in

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NENP-1, has encouraged us to investigate the electrochemical supercapacitor application. It

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has already been documented in some of the recent literatures that not only the superior

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textural properties but also the electrical conductivity of electrode material plays important

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role in tuning the electrochemical performance of supercapacitors.8,9,16,30 The electrical

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conductivity of 0.95 S cm-1 at RT was estimated in the NENP-1 measured using a four point

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probe method. This value of conductivity is high considering the nature of the materials and

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the textural properties. In general, the electrical conductivity of some of the polymeric

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materials have value in the range of 104 to 10-7 S cm-1. However, the introduction of

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nanopores in the material could substantially reduce the electrical conductivity.8,30

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Considering the high specific surface area and large pore volume, the estimated electrical

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conductivity for this nanoporous NENP-1 could be beneficial for enhancing the capacitance

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and charge storage capacity of the electrode.

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The NENP-1 was subjected to CV and GCD measurements in a three electrodes

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configuration using 0.1 M H2SO4 as electrolyte. The CV curves of NENP-1 [Figure 3(a)]

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profile with a pair of minor reversible humps, which remain similar even at high scan rate up

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to 100 mV s-1. Thus, the capacitive response for NENP-1 originates from the combination of

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electrical double layer (EDL) capacitance and pseudo-capacitance. The EDL feature is

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mainly due to the high SABET of nanoporous polytriazine and the reversible redox

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transformation of N functionality of bridged amine and triazine ring contributed the pseudo-

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capacitance feature.41 As discussed above in XPS, the higher N5 (62.4 at%) type of nitrogen

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compared to N6 (32.7 at%) type has a direct bearing on the higher contribution of pseudo-

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capacitance.41-43 The specific capacitance (Csp) of 1256 F g-1 at the scan rate of 1 mV s-1

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estimated for NENP-1 is on the higher side. It is worth mentioning that the Csp of NENP-1 is

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comparable with many of the recently reported materials such as Aza-CMP@450 (946 F g-1

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@0.5 A g-1)26 and DAAQ-TFP COF (48 ± 10 F g-1 @0.1 A g-1) 27. -1

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Figure 3. (a) CV curves at different scan rates, (b) GCD curves at various current densities,

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(c) Specific capacitance vs scan rate/current density and (d) Cyclic stability of NENP-1 tested

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It is interesting to note that even at higher scan rate of 5, 10, 20, 80 and 100 mV s-1,

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NENP-1 has exhibited Csp of 1064, 975, 866, 625 and 497 F g-1, respectively. A small

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decrease in the Csp values with the increased scan rate is believed to be due to the hierarchical

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pore structure, which facilitates the smooth transfer of ions, at higher scan rates. Moreover,

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the smallest pores in the sample is also on the higher side of the micropore range that

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facilitates the ion transport.44 In order to further understand the electrochemical

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supercapacitor behavior, the NENP-1 was further employed for GCD analysis. The GCD

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curves [Figure 3(b)] measured at different current densities between 1 to 8 A g-1 have

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exhibited regular triangular shapes with minor kink, which suggests reversible redox reaction

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during charging discharging processes. Almost inconspicuous IR drop was observed in GCD

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curve indicating a minute ohmic resistance and good capacitive performance. The maximum

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Csp calculated to be 656 F g-1 at the current density of 1 A g-1 [Figure 3(c)]. As expected, the

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drop in Csp is not sharp on increasing the current density (580 F g-1 @2 A g-1, 540 F g-1 @3 A

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g-1, 509 F g-1 @4 A g-1 and 362 F g-1 @8 A g-1), which could be attributed to the facile

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diffusion of proton, due to which most of the active sites on electrode surface are accessible

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to electrolyte.44,45

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The cyclic stability of the prepared electrode has been tested using GCD. Almost

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87.4% of retention from its initial Csp was observed even after 5000 cycles at a current

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density of 5 A g-1 [Figure 3(d)], further reveals its importance as electrode material for

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materials based ASCD such as SPANI/G-1 (157 F g-1 @1.5 A g-1),45 HFAC (114 F g-1 @0.5

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A g-1)46 and also better than many of the metal oxide based ASCD such as Co3O4/carbon

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@5 mV s-1),49 MnO2/P-GA (108.9 F g-1 @5 mV s-1),50 MWS/MWV (198 F g-1 @1 A g-1).51

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power density of 2.0 kW kg-1 in the ASCD was far better than the previously reported

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materials such as SPANI/G-1 (31.4 Wh kg-1 @14 kW kg-1),45 Ni(OH)2/graphene (77.8 Wh kg-

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materials for supercapacitor applications. To further understand the charge transfer behaviour

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MHz and amplitude between 0.005 and 0.03 V [Figure 4(f)]. An equivalent simulated circuit

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resistance (Rct), Warburg element (W) and capacitor (C) was fitted. The obtained Nyquist

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electrode surface. The estimated Rct value for NENP-1 electrode was 2.471 Ω along with Rs

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with reported energy storage devices, Ragone plot was plotted [Figure 5(a)]. The Ragone plot

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indicates that the NENP based ASCD could store the energy comparable to batteries while

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keeping its power density performance comparable to supercapacitors.48,49,55-57

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material could be attributed to the high nitrogen content (50.5 wt%) and hierarchical pore

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structure. The nitrogen functionality in the framework provides the active sites for the redox

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reaction, whereas the hierarchical pore structure helps in the kinetics of the electrolytic ion

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movements. The ASCD was further tested as a power source to lit a 1.5 V red and green

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LEDs, and 3.0 V blue LED [Figure 5(b)]. On charging for 30 s with an input potential of 3.0

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sec-1). The fabricated ASCD demonstrates excellent performance (567 F g-1 @5 mV sec-1)

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Supporting Information. Reaction scheme, NMR, XRD, TGA, BET and Langmuir plot, and

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tables of energy density and power density at various current density in two electrode

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configurations.

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Corresponding Author

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E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

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Phone: +91-1332-284859; Fax: +91-1332-286202

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ORCID ID:

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Paritosh Mohanty: 0000-0003-2765-0129

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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The work was financially supported by SERB, DST New Delhi, Govt. of India with Grant

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code: EMR/2016/001693.

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