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1 Supporting information Polarity-Assisted Formation of Hollow-Frame Sheathed Nitrogen- Doped Nanofibrous Carbon for Supercapacitor Yujiao Gong, a Ruyi Chen, a Hai Xu, a Chenyang Yu, a Xi Zhao, a Yue Sun, a Zengyu Hui, a Jinyuan Zhou, c Jianing An, d * Zhuzhu Du, a Gengzhi Sun a * and Wei Huang ab a Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University (NajingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, P. R. China b Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an 710072, P. R. China c School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, 222 South Tianshui Road, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China d School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore *Corresponding author: [email protected]; [email protected] Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Nanoscale. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2019

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Supporting information

Polarity-Assisted Formation of Hollow-Frame Sheathed Nitrogen-

Doped Nanofibrous Carbon for Supercapacitor

Yujiao Gong,a Ruyi Chen,a Hai Xu,a Chenyang Yu,a Xi Zhao,a Yue Sun,a Zengyu Hui,a Jinyuan Zhou,c Jianing An,d*

Zhuzhu Du,a Gengzhi Suna* and Wei Huangab

aKey Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech

University (NajingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, P. R. ChinabInstitute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an 710072,

P. R. ChinacSchool of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, 222 South Tianshui Road, Lanzhou 730000, P. R.

ChinadSchool of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue,

Singapore 639798, Singapore

*Corresponding author: [email protected]; [email protected]

Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Nanoscale.This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2019

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Figure S1. SEM image of CNF.

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Figure S2. The loading amount of ZIF-8 obtained at different ratios between 2-MeIM and Zn(CH3COO)2.

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Figure S3. (a) SEM image of N-NFC-8. (b-d) EDS element mapping images of C, N, and O.

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Figure S4. XRD patterns of (a) ZIF-8-4 and ZIF-8-16, (b) PAN@ZIF-8-4 and PAN@ZIF-8-16, and (c) N-NFC-4, N-NFC-16 and CNF. (d) Raman spectra of N-NFC-4 and N-NFC-16.

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Figure S5. Nitrogen adsorption/desorption isotherms and the corresponding pore-size-distribution curves of (a) N-NFC-4 and (b) N-NFC-16.

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Figure S6. XPS survey of N-NFC-8.

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Figure S7. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) curve of N-NFC-8 with the ramping rates of 10°C min−1.

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Figure S8. CV curves of CNF at different scan rates in three-electrode system.

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Figure S9. Nyquist plots of CNF, N-NFC-4, N-NFC-8 and N-NFC-16, respectively.

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Figure S10. Galvanostatic charge-discharge curves of N-NFC-8 at different current densities in three-electrode system.

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Figure S11. Rate-dependent specific capacitance of N-NFC-4, N-NFC-16 and CNF, respectively.

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Figure S12. Cycling performance of the N-NFC-8 in 1 M H2SO4 at the current density of 10 A g-1. Inset shows the GCD curves of the 1st and 2000th cycle.

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Figure S13. Two-electrode test of N-NFC-8 in 1 M H2SO4 electrolyte. (a) CV curves at different scan rates, (b) galvanostatic charge-discharge curves at different current densities and (c) rate-dependent specific capacitance.

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Figure S14. Galvanostatic charge-discharge curves of N-NFC-8 at different current densities in two-electrode system.