High graphite N content in nitrogen-doped graphene as an efficient metal-free catalyst for reduction of nitroarenes in water

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 4254-4262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Yang ◽  
Cheng Chi ◽  
Chunxia Wang ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
Yongfeng Li

High graphite N content in nitrogen-doped graphene is synthesized by a one-step hydrothermal reaction, which can catalyze the reduction of nitroarenes by using a small amount of NaBH4 in water with high yield.

Engineering ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 680-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyong Wang ◽  
Zhijian Zhao ◽  
Jesse Baucom ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
Liming Dai ◽  
...  

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florent Bourquard ◽  
Yannick Bleu ◽  
Anne-Sophie Loir ◽  
Borja Caja-Munoz ◽  
José Avila ◽  
...  

Graphene-based materials are widely studied to enable significant improvements in electroanalytical devices requiring new generations of robust, sensitive and low-cost electrodes. In this paper, we present a direct one-step route to synthetize a functional nitrogen-doped graphene film onto a Ni-covered silicon electrode substrate heated at high temperature, by pulsed laser deposition of carbon in the presence of a surrounding nitrogen atmosphere, with no post-deposition transfer of the film. With the ferrocene methanol system, the functionalized electrode exhibits excellent reversibility, close to the theoretical value of 59 mV, and very high sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide oxidation. Our electroanalytical results were correlated with the composition and nanoarchitecture of the N-doped graphene film containing 1.75 at % of nitrogen and identified as a few-layer defected and textured graphene film containing a balanced mixture of graphitic-N and pyrrolic-N chemical functions. The absence of nitrogen dopant in the graphene film considerably degraded some electroanalytical performances. Heat treatment extended beyond the high temperature graphene synthesis did not significantly improve any of the performances. This work contributes to a better understanding of the electrochemical mechanisms of doped graphene-based electrodes obtained by a direct and controlled synthesis process.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (33) ◽  
pp. 17544-17548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beibei Xie ◽  
Yong Zhang ◽  
Renjie Zhang

Monodisperse Pt nanocrystals in NGA with a large specific surface area and high N content yield high ORR performance.


ACS Omega ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Varga ◽  
Lívia Vásárhelyi ◽  
Gergő Ballai ◽  
Henrik Haspel ◽  
Albert Oszkó ◽  
...  

Carbon ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 123-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yang ◽  
Wanzhen He ◽  
Qianqing Jiang ◽  
Zhihui Chen ◽  
Huanxin Ju ◽  
...  

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