Biomass willow catkin-derived Co3O4/N-doped hollow hierarchical porous carbon microtubes as an effective tri-functional electrocatalyst

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (38) ◽  
pp. 20170-20179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Wang ◽  
Li Xu ◽  
Gaopeng Liu ◽  
Pengfei Zhang ◽  
Wenshuai Zhu ◽  
...  

Oxygen reduction (ORR), oxygen evolution (OER), and hydrogen evolution (HER) reactions are extremely important electrochemical reactions for electrochemical energy conversion and storage.

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (69) ◽  
pp. 64258-64265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Zhao ◽  
Jian Wang ◽  
Chi Chen ◽  
Dengjie Chen ◽  
Yang Gao ◽  
...  

The development of energy conversion and storage devices and the disposal of solid waste represent two major challenges for environmental sustainability.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (21) ◽  
pp. 3279-3286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoxuan Yang ◽  
Ke Li ◽  
Jiaqi Lv ◽  
Xinyu Chen ◽  
Hong-Ying Zang ◽  
...  

Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1525
Author(s):  
Williane da Silva Freitas ◽  
Pedro Pablo Machado Pico ◽  
Alessandra D’Epifanio ◽  
Barbara Mecheri

The development of electrocatalysts for energy conversion and storage devices is of paramount importance to promote sustainable development. Among the different families of materials, catalysts based on transition metals supported on a nitrogen-containing carbon matrix have been found to be effective catalysts toward oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) with high potential to replace conventional precious metal-based catalysts. In this work, we developed a facile synthesis strategy to obtain a Fe-N-C bifunctional ORR/HER catalysts, involving wet impregnation and pyrolysis steps. Iron (II) acetate and imidazole were used as iron and nitrogen sources, respectively, and functionalized carbon black pearls were used as conductive support. The bifunctional performance of the Fe-N-C catalyst toward ORR and HER was investigated by cyclic voltammetry, rotating ring disk electrode experiments, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in alkaline environment. ORR onset potential and half-wave potential were 0.95 V and 0.86 V, respectively, indicating a competitive performance in comparison with the commercial platinum-based catalyst. In addition, Fe-N-C had also a good HER activity, with an overpotential of 478 mV @10 mAcm−2 and Tafel slope of 133 mVdec−1, demonstrating its activity as bifunctional catalyst in energy conversion and storage devices, such as alkaline microbial fuel cell and microbial electrolysis cells.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai Wang ◽  
Zheng Lu ◽  
Yuan Fang ◽  
Tian Zheng ◽  
Zidong Zhang ◽  
...  

Rational construction of self-supporting electrode has been extensively investigated in energy conversion and storage. Herein, hierarchical N-doped carbon encapsulated Ni3S2 grown on 3D porous Ni foam (H-Ni3S2@NC/NF) is controllably synthesized...


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1408-1428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianqian Ji ◽  
Lei Bi ◽  
Jintao Zhang ◽  
Haijie Cao ◽  
X. S. Zhao

The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is one of the most important electrochemical reactions in energy conversion and storage technologies, such as fuel cells and metal–air batteries.


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