Zinc, sulfur and nitrogen co-doped carbon from sodium chloride/zinc chloride-assisted pyrolysis of thiourea/sucrose for highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction in both acidic and alkaline media

2020 ◽  
Vol 576 ◽  
pp. 139-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing-Cheng Cao ◽  
Xiao-Bo Ding ◽  
Fang Li ◽  
Yuan-Hang Qin ◽  
Cunwen Wang
2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (93) ◽  
pp. 13979-13982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Li ◽  
Xiao-Bo Ding ◽  
Qing-Cheng Cao ◽  
Yuan-Hang Qin ◽  
Cunwen Wang

A ZIF-derived Fe–Zn–N–C catalyst synthesized by a two-stage pyrolysis process exhibits superior activity for the ORR.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 843-852
Author(s):  
Hunan Jiang ◽  
Jinyang Li ◽  
Mengni Liang ◽  
Hanpeng Deng ◽  
Zuowan Zhou

AbstractAlthough Fe–N/C catalysts have received increasing attention in recent years for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), it is still challenging to precisely control the active sites during the preparation. Herein, we report FexN@RGO catalysts with the size of 2–6 nm derived from the pyrolysis of graphene oxide and 1,1′-diacetylferrocene as C and Fe precursors under the NH3/Ar atmosphere as N source. The 1,1′-diacetylferrocene transforms to Fe3O4 at 600°C and transforms to Fe3N and Fe2N at 700°C and 800°C, respectively. The as-prepared FexN@RGO catalysts exhibited superior electrocatalytic activities in acidic and alkaline media compared with the commercial 10% Pt/C, in terms of electrochemical surface area, onset potential, half-wave potential, number of electrons transferred, kinetic current density, and exchange current density. In addition, the stability of FGN-8 also outperformed commercial 10% Pt/C after 10000 cycles, which demonstrates the as-prepared FexN@RGO as durable and active ORR catalysts in acidic media.


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