scholarly journals Nitrogen-doped porous activated carbon derived from cocoon silk as a highly efficient metal-free electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (22) ◽  
pp. 13383-13389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Fu ◽  
Lihua Zhou ◽  
Lihua Sun ◽  
Baohua Huang ◽  
Yong Yuan

Nitrogen-doped porous activated carbon (PAC) has been fabricated via a facile heat-treatment and chemical activation of cocoon silk. The prepared PAC exhibits excellent ORR catalytic activity.

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huixin Ma ◽  
Daijie Deng ◽  
Honghui Zhang ◽  
Feng Chen ◽  
Junchao Qian ◽  
...  

Nitrogen-coordinated single-atom manganese in multi-dimensional nitrogen-doped carbon electrocatalysts (Mn-NC) was successful constructed by combing two-dimensional nanosheets and one-dimensional nanofibers. The Mn-NC exhibited excellent oxygen reduction reaction catalytic activity with half-wave...


Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Yao ◽  
Ruiyang Fan ◽  
Wangyang Ji ◽  
Tingxuan Yan ◽  
Maocong Hu

In this work, non-traditional metal-free polynitrogen chain N8− deposited on a nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (PN-NCNT) catalyst was successfully synthesized by a facile cyclic voltammetry (CV) approach, which was further tested in an oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The formation of PN on NCNT was confirmed by attenuated total reflectance–Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and Raman spectroscopy. Partial positive charge of carbon within NCNT facilitated electron transfer and accordingly induced the formation of more PN species compared to CNT substrate as determined by temperature-programmed decomposition (TPD). Rotating disk electrode (RDE) measurements suggested that a higher current density was achieved over PN-NCNT than that on PN-CNT catalyst, which can be attributed to formation of the larger amount of N8− on NCNT. Kinetic study suggested a four-electron pathway mechanism over PN-NCNT. Moreover, it showed long stability and good methanol tolerance, which indicates its great potential application. This work provides insights on designing and synthesizing non-traditional metal-free catalysts for ORR in fuel cells.


RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (47) ◽  
pp. 27231-27241
Author(s):  
Markus Gehring ◽  
Hermann Tempel ◽  
Alexandre Merlen ◽  
Roland Schierholz ◽  
Rüdiger-A. Eichel ◽  
...  

Nitrogen-doped carbon fibres derived from electrospun poly-acrylonitrile display an optimum catalytic activity towards the oxygen reduction reaction in aqueous-alkaline metal–air batteries, when carbonised under argon at 850 °C.


2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 876-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linmin Cao ◽  
Zhipeng Lin ◽  
Jilin Huang ◽  
Xiang Yu ◽  
Xiaoxian Wu ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 106131
Author(s):  
Xiaobo Chen ◽  
Zhiqiang Li ◽  
Rumeng Qin ◽  
Shengjie Shan ◽  
Yibin Liu ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 2985-2991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunjie Zhou ◽  
Yue Sun ◽  
Huibo Wang ◽  
Cheng Zhu ◽  
Jin Gao ◽  
...  

A N, B co-doped carbon material exhibits excellent catalytic activity for an oxygen reduction reaction.


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

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