Nitrogen- and iodine-doped microporous carbon derived from a hydrogen-bonded organic framework: an efficient metal-free electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (16) ◽  
pp. 9587-9592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Ju Liu ◽  
Ya-Qiong Wen ◽  
Jia-Wei Wang ◽  
Di-Chang Zhong ◽  
Jing-Bo Tan ◽  
...  

A hydrogen-bonded organic framework (HOF-8) was utilized as a precursor to prepare carbon-based oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts.

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. e1400129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianglan Shui ◽  
Min Wang ◽  
Feng Du ◽  
Liming Dai

The availability of low-cost, efficient, and durable catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a prerequisite for commercialization of the fuel cell technology. Along with intensive research efforts of more than half a century in developing nonprecious metal catalysts (NPMCs) to replace the expensive and scarce platinum-based catalysts, a new class of carbon-based, low-cost, metal-free ORR catalysts was demonstrated to show superior ORR performance to commercial platinum catalysts, particularly in alkaline electrolytes. However, their large-scale practical application in more popular acidic polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells remained elusive because they are often found to be less effective in acidic electrolytes, and no attempt has been made for a single PEM cell test. We demonstrated that rationally designed, metal-free, nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes and their graphene composites exhibited significantly better long-term operational stabilities and comparable gravimetric power densities with respect to the best NPMC in acidic PEM cells. This work represents a major breakthrough in removing the bottlenecks to translate low-cost, metal-free, carbon-based ORR catalysts to commercial reality, and opens avenues for clean energy generation from affordable and durable fuel cells.


2012 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 291-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisao Kiuchi ◽  
Hideharu Niwa ◽  
Masaki Kobayashi ◽  
Yoshihisa Harada ◽  
Masaharu Oshima ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (8) ◽  
pp. 1267-1270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Royuela ◽  
Emiliano Martínez-Periñán ◽  
Marina P. Arrieta ◽  
José I. Martínez ◽  
M. Mar Ramos ◽  
...  

A novel naphthalene diimide-based covalent organic framework (NDI-COF) has been synthesized and successfully exfoliated into COF nanosheets (CONs) to provide an efficient electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction.


2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 1986-1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijun Yang ◽  
Yu Zhao ◽  
Shen Chen ◽  
Qiang Wu ◽  
Xizhang Wang ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 384 ◽  
pp. 98-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihua Zhang ◽  
Yongyou Hu ◽  
Junfeng Chen ◽  
Wantang Huang ◽  
Jianhua Cheng ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (49) ◽  
pp. 54815-54823
Author(s):  
Javier Quílez-Bermejo ◽  
Karol Strutyński ◽  
Manuel Melle-Franco ◽  
Emilia Morallón ◽  
Diego Cazorla-Amorós

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