scholarly journals Graphene-Modified Composites and Electrodes and Their Potential Applications in the Electro-Fenton Process

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian Yu ◽  
Carmel B. Breslin

In recent years, graphene-based materials have been identified as an emerging and promising new material in electro-Fenton, with the potential to form highly efficient metal-free catalysts that can be employed in the removal of contaminants from water, conserving precious water resources. In this review, the recent applications of graphene-based materials in electro-Fenton are described and discussed. Initially, homogenous and heterogenous electro-Fenton methods are briefly introduced, highlighting the importance of the generation of H2O2 from the two-electron reduction of dissolved oxygen and its catalysed decomposition to produce reactive and oxidising hydroxy radicals. Next, the promising applications of graphene-based electrodes in promoting this two-electron oxygen reduction reaction are considered and this is followed by an account of the various graphene-based materials that have been used successfully to give highly efficient graphene-based cathodes in electro-Fenton. In particular, graphene-based composites that have been combined with other carbonaceous materials, doped with nitrogen, formed as highly porous aerogels, three-dimensional materials and porous gas diffusion electrodes, used as supports for iron oxides and functionalised with ferrocene and employed in the more effective heterogeneous electro-Fenton, are all reviewed. It is perfectly clear that graphene-based materials have the potential to degrade and mineralise dyes, pharmaceutical compounds, antibiotics, phenolic compounds and show tremendous potential in electro-Fenton and other advanced oxidation processes.

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (49) ◽  
pp. 43116-43126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yisi Liu ◽  
Wenzhang Li ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Haibo Shen ◽  
Yaomin Li ◽  
...  

In this work, we demonstrate a facile strategy to synthesize a novel three-dimensional (3D) graphene aerogel-supported and graphene quantum dots-modified γ-MnOOH nanotubes as a highly efficient electrocatalyst.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wu ◽  
Juncai Dong ◽  
Mei Qiu ◽  
Yang Li ◽  
Yongfan Zhang ◽  
...  

We describe a facile synthetic protocol to realize the decoration of Fe coordinates at the subnanometer scale into a three-dimensional porous carbon matrix, which great promotes the oxygen reduction reaction compared with isolated Fe atoms.


Nanoscale ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (24) ◽  
pp. 15066-15072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Jiang ◽  
Yizhong Lu ◽  
Xiaodan Wang ◽  
Yu Bao ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
...  

Effective preparation of a high-performance non-precious metal oxygen reduction electrocatalyst (a Co–N complex on 3D N-doped graphene) by a facile method from low-cost raw materials.


Gels ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Natalia Menshutina ◽  
Andrey Abramov ◽  
Pavel Tsygankov ◽  
Daria Lovskaya

Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a promising technology for solving a wide range of problems: regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, chemistry, etc. One of the potential applications of additive technologies is the production of highly porous structures with complex geometries, while printing is carried out using gel-like materials. However, the implementation of precise gel printing is a difficult task due to the high requirements for “ink”. In this paper, we propose the use of gel-like materials based on sodium alginate as “ink” for the implementation of the developed technology of extrusion-based 3D printing. Rheological studies were carried out for the developed alginate ink compositions. The optimal rheological properties are gel-like materials based on 2 wt% sodium alginate and 0.2 wt% calcium chloride. The 3D-printed structures with complex geometry were successfully dried using supercritical drying. The resulting aerogels have a high specific surface area (from 350 to 422 m2/g) and a high pore volume (from 3 to 3.78 cm3/g).


Author(s):  
Zheyang Mo ◽  
Weiyi Yang ◽  
Shuang Gao ◽  
Jian Ku Shang ◽  
Yajun Ding ◽  
...  

AbstractA highly porous nitrogen-doped carbon sphere (NPC) electrocatalyst was prepared through the carbonization of biomass carbon spheres mixed with urea and zinc chloride in N2 atmosphere. The sample carbonized at 1000 °C demonstrates a superior oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) performance over the Pt/C electrocatalyst, while its contents of pyridinic nitrogen and graphitic nitrogen are the lowest among samples synthesized at the same or lower carbonization temperatures. This unusual result is explained by a space confinement effect from the microporous and mesoporous structures in the microflakes, which induces the further reduction of peroxide ions or other oxygen species produced in the first step reduction to water to have the preferred overall four electron reduction ORR process. This work demonstrates that in addition to the amount or species of its active sites, the space confinement can be a new approach to enhance the ORR performance of precious-metal-free, nitrogen-doped carbon electrocatalysts.


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