Fullerene-based carbons are promising electrode materials for supercapacitors due to their unique carbon structures and tunable architectures at the molecular level. By introducing various functional groups with many elements on the fullerene cages, diverse in situ metal/non-metal-doped carbon materials with enhanced pseudocapacitances and/or double layer capacitances can be prepared. In the present work, a fullerene derivative, ferrocenylpyrrolidine C60, containing nitrogen and iron, was chosen as the only precursor. A unique microstructure was fabricated by a liquid-liquid interfacial precipitation (LLIP) process. Subsequently, a facile, one-step annealing of the microstructure at different temperatures was performed. A series of in situ N, Fe co-doped laminated 3D hierarchical carbon composites in the shape of a cross were successfully synthesized. The as-prepared N, Fe co-doped carbon material treated at 700 o C exhibits a high specific capacitance of 505.4 F g -1 at 0.1 A g -1 . To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest supercapacitor capacitance This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.3 based on fullerene electrode materials. The use of a fullerene derivative as an in situ doped carbon for applications in energy storage opens a new avenue for developing future synthetic strategies to extend the repertoire of electrode materials with high performance.

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