Recently, the production of porous carbon materials by using low cost precursor as well as sustainable approach is one of the most appealing topics in materials science. Several groups have paid their attention to the use of biomass-derived carbohydrates or even raw biomass to synthesis carbonaceous structures.1,2,3 Nevertheless, for some applications, surface functionalization/bulk dopant is required. Doping of the carbon material structure with heteroatoms (e.g. N, S, B, etc.) is a popular route to tune both the structural and physicochemical properties. Among these, nitrogen-doped porous carbons exhibited remarkable performance in some applications, such as gas sorption, purification, catalysts and in electrochemistry (e.g. as supercapacitors, fuel cells and batteries).4,5Herein, our recent research regarding facile approaches for the production of nitrogen-rich porous carbons will be presented. A series of nitrogen-doped carbon materials were obtained by using biomass (e.g. human hair, shrimp shells, or chinese tofu, etc.) as precursors via simple procedures, such as hydrothermal carbonization, dehydration, activation. In this extend abstract, we will focus on the discussion of the human hair-derived nitrogen and sulfur co-doped porous carbon materials. Herein, the human hair-derived materials were synthesized via a degradation and carbonization/activation process.The as-prepared porous materials possess very high specific surface areavalues and exhibit superior performance in gas sorption.
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