Review on Recent Progress in Nitrogen-Doped Graphene: Synthesis, Characterization, and Its Potential Applications
Abstract
Nitrogen doping has been an effective way to tailor the properties of graphene and render its potential use for various applications. Three common bonding configurations are normally obtained when doping nitrogen into the graphene: pyridinic N, pyrrolic N, and graphitic N. This paper reviews nitrogen-doped graphene, including various synthesis methods to introduce N doping and various characterization techniques for the examination of various N bonding configurations. Potential applications of N-graphene are also reviewed on the basis of experimental and theoretical studies.
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Nitrogen-doped graphene is a promising candidate for combining with MoS2 because of its excellent electrical conductivity, high chemical stability, and moderate catalytic activity for hydrogen evolution.
“Within the graphene family, nitrogen-doped graphene (NG) is one of the promising candidates because of its excellent electrical conductivity, high chemical stability, and moderate catalytic activity for hydrogen evolution.19,20”
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- Authors
- Wang, H., Maiyalagan, T., & Wang, X.
- Affiliations
- Nanyang Technological University (SG)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, Xin
- Venue
- ACS Catalysis
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2012-04-03
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 781-794
- ISSN
- 2155-5435 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2038726293
- Cited by
- 3,618
- References
- 2
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- FWCI
- 114.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACS Catalysis (publishedVersion)
- DR-NTU (Nanyang Technological University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Graphene research and applications
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
- Keywords
- nitrogen-doped graphene, nitrogen doping, pyridinic nitrogen, pyrrolic nitrogen, graphitic nitrogen, graphene synthesis
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