scholarly journals Transition Metal (Fe, Co, Ni) Nanoparticles on Selective Amino-N-Doped Carbon as High-Performance Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalyst

Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seonghee Kim ◽  
Shuhei Kato ◽  
Takahiro Ishizaki ◽  
Oi Lun Li ◽  
Jun Kang
Keyword(s):  
Transition Metal ◽  
Oxygen Reduction Reaction ◽  
Oxygen Reduction ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Reduction Reaction ◽  
Metal Nanoparticle ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Pt Catalyst ◽  
Hydrogen Electrode ◽  
Electrochemical Testing

Metal-air batteries are attracting increasing attention as a superior renewable energy conversion device due to their high performance and strong potential. However, the high cost and low stability of the current Pt catalyst is the main obstacle preventing wide industrial application. In this work, we applied a plasma process to fabricate aniline and a transition metals electrode (Fe, Co, Ni) as the carbon-nitrogen and the metal nanoparticle (NP) precursors, respectively, for selective metal/amino-N-doped carbon catalysts. All three as-synthesized catalysts exhibited dominant amino-N as the major C–N bonding state. In electrochemical testing, Co/amino-N-doped carbon showed positive E1/2 potential (0.83 V vs. Reversible Hydrogen Electrode (RHE)). In addition, the calculated electron transfer number (n) of Co/amino-N-doped carbon at 0.5 V vs. RHE was 3.81, which was only slightly less than that of commercial Pt/C (3.97). This superior performance of transition metal/amino-N-doped carbon promotes it as an economical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalyst to replace expensive Pt/C in metal-air batteries.

scholarly journals High-performance transition metal-doped Pt3Ni octahedra for oxygen reduction reaction

Science ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 348 (6240) ◽  
pp. 1230-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Huang ◽  
Z. Zhao ◽  
L. Cao ◽  
Y. Chen ◽  
E. Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transition Metal ◽  
Oxygen Reduction Reaction ◽  
Oxygen Reduction ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Reduction Reaction ◽  
Metal Doped

scholarly journals Conformational Effects of Pt-Shells on Nanostructures and Corresponding Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity of Au-Cluster-Decorated NiOx@Pt Nanocatalysts

Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhalothia ◽  
Fan ◽  
Lai ◽  
Yang ◽  
Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Reduction Reaction ◽  
Oxygen Reduction ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
Chemical Reduction ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Reduction Reaction ◽  
Pt Catalyst ◽  
Hydrogen Electrode ◽  
Au Clusters ◽  
Orr Activity

Herein, ternary metallic nanocatalysts (NCs) consisting of Au clusters decorated with a Pt shell and a Ni oxide core underneath (called NPA) on carbon nanotube (CNT) support were synthesized by combining adsorption, precipitation, and chemical reduction methods. By a retrospective investigation of the physical structure and electrochemical results, we elucidated the effects of Pt/Ni ratios (0.4 and 1.0) and Au contents (2 and 9 wt.%) on the nanostructure and corresponding oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity of the NPA NCs. We found that the ORR activity of NPA NCs was mainly dominated by the Pt-shell thickness which regulated the depth and size of the surface decorated with Au clusters. In the optimal case, NPA-1004006 (with a Pt/Ni of 0.4 and Au of ~2 wt.%) showed a kinetic current (JK) of 75.02 mA cm−2 which was nearly 17-times better than that (4.37 mA cm−2) of the commercial Johnson Matthey-Pt/C (20 wt.% Pt) catalyst at 0.85 V vs. the reference hydrogen electrode. Such a high JK value resulted in substantial improvements in both the specific activity (by ~53-fold) and mass activity (by nearly 10-fold) in the same benchmark target. Those scenarios rationalize that ORR activity can be substantially improved by a syngeneic effect at heterogeneous interfaces among nanometer-sized NiOx, Pt, and Au clusters on the NC surface.

scholarly journals Probing the activity of transition metal M and heteroatom N4 co-doped in vacancy fullerene (M–N4–C64, M = Fe, Co, and Ni) towards the oxygen reduction reaction by density functional theory

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 3174-3182
Author(s):  
Siwei Yang ◽  
Chaoyu Zhao ◽  
Ruxin Qu ◽  
Yaxuan Cheng ◽  
Huiling Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Density Functional Theory ◽  
Transition Metal ◽  
Oxygen Reduction Reaction ◽  
Oxygen Reduction ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Reduction Reaction ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Co Doped

In this study, a novel type oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalyst is explored using density functional theory (DFT); the catalyst consists of transition metal M and heteroatom N4 co-doped in vacancy fullerene (M–N4–C64, M = Fe, Co, and Ni).

Tunable mesoporous manganese oxide for high performance oxygen reduction and evolution reactions

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 620-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Islam M. Mosa ◽  
Sourav Biswas ◽  
Abdelhamid M. El-Sawy ◽  
Venkatesh Botu ◽  
Curtis Guild ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Reduction Reaction ◽  
Manganese Oxide ◽  
Oxygen Reduction ◽  
Oxygen Evolution ◽  
Oxygen Evolution Reaction ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Reduction Reaction ◽  
Noble Metal Catalysts ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
State Of Art

Understanding the origin of manganese oxide activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key step towards rationally designing of highly active catalysts capable of competing with the widely used, state-of-art noble metal catalysts.

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