Rational design of a highly mesoporous Fe–N–C/Fe3C/C–S–C nanohybrid with dense active sites for superb electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (44) ◽  
pp. 23436-23454
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al-Shahat Eissa ◽  
Nam Hoon Kim ◽  
Joong Hee Lee

A high-performance and sustainable electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction is fabricated by a single-step doping/annealing strategy.

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 2581-2589 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Ferrero ◽  
K. Preuss ◽  
A. B. Fuertes ◽  
M. Sevilla ◽  
M.-M. Titirici

High-performance nitrogen-doped carbon electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction have been synthesized by the rational design of their pore structure.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (35) ◽  
pp. 20132-20138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenling Gu ◽  
Maochun Wu ◽  
Jing Sun ◽  
Jianbo Xu ◽  
Tianshou Zhao

A novel protocol for synthesis of high performance N-doped hierarchically porous graphitic carbon electrocatalysts with single Fe atoms by pyrolyzing a mesoporous Fe–polydopamine precursor without an extra template removal process.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 5617-5627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Chen ◽  
Chenyu Xu ◽  
Ran Du ◽  
Yueyuan Mao ◽  
Cheng Xue ◽  
...  

“Carbon nanoleaf” aerogels were developed, constructed with nitrogen-doped CNTs/GNRs, which show excellent catalytic performance in oxygen reduction reaction.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gege Yang ◽  
Jiawei Zhu ◽  
Pengfei Yuan ◽  
Yongfeng Hu ◽  
Gan Qu ◽  
...  

AbstractAs low-cost electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction applied to fuel cells and metal-air batteries, atomic-dispersed transition metal-nitrogen-carbon materials are emerging, but the genuine mechanism thereof is still arguable. Herein, by rational design and synthesis of dual-metal atomically dispersed Fe,Mn/N-C catalyst as model object, we unravel that the O2 reduction preferentially takes place on FeIII in the FeN4 /C system with intermediate spin state which possesses one eg electron (t2g4eg1) readily penetrating the antibonding π-orbital of oxygen. Both magnetic measurements and theoretical calculation reveal that the adjacent atomically dispersed Mn-N moieties can effectively activate the FeIII sites by both spin-state transition and electronic modulation, rendering the excellent ORR performances of Fe,Mn/N-C in both alkaline and acidic media (halfwave positionals are 0.928 V in 0.1 M KOH, and 0.804 V in 0.1 M HClO4), and good durability, which outperforms and has almost the same activity of commercial Pt/C, respectively. In addition, it presents a superior power density of 160.8 mW cm−2 and long-term durability in reversible zinc–air batteries. The work brings new insight into the oxygen reduction reaction process on the metal-nitrogen-carbon active sites, undoubtedly leading the exploration towards high effective low-cost non-precious catalysts.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhimin He ◽  
Peng Wei ◽  
Ting Xu ◽  
Ziqian Guo ◽  
Jiantao Han ◽  
...  

Disrupting the integrity of sp2-carbon skeleton offers an effective strategy to create active sites for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). In this work, fullerene (C70) molecules, composed of 12 pentagons and...


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shao-hua Zhang ◽  
Yi-jing Gao ◽  
Shan Cheng ◽  
Yi-long Yan ◽  
Shi-Jie Zhang ◽  
...  

FeCxNy/N-PC catalysts derived by Fe(CN)5@PILs show high performance and catalytic activity for the ORR.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (80) ◽  
pp. 65303-65307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiangmin Yu ◽  
Jiaoxing Xu ◽  
Chuxin Wu ◽  
Lunhui Guan

A high performance electrocatalyst for ORR in alkaline is based on the strong coupling of Co-g-C3N4 derived active sites on SWCNTs.


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