Towards High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction: Inducing Atomic-Level Reconstruction of Fe-Nx Site for Atomically Dispersed Fe/N-Doped Hierarchically Porous Carbon. 2018

Hanyu Li, and Zhengping Zhang, and Meiling Dou, and Feng Wang
State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Laboratory of Electrochemical Process and Technology for Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China.

A rational and effective strategy for the synthesis of a high-performance non-precious metal electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) was developed by inducing reconstruction of Fe-Nx site on pig-bone-derived nitrogen-doped hierarchically porous carbon. The resultant Fe/N-doped carbon electrocatalyst possessed abundant atomically dispersed non-planar Fe-N4 ORR active sites, with absolute presence of active D1 (FeII -N4 ) and D3 (N-FeII -N2+2 ) sites, as well as large specific surface area and three-dimensional porous structure with hierarchical micro-/meso-/macro-pore distribution, which increased the utilization of active sites and promoted mass transport of ORR reactants. This resulted in a remarkably superior ORR activity with half-wave potential of 0.87 V (20 mV higher than Pt/C) and kinetic current density of 10.9 mA cm-2 at 0.85 V (2.3-fold of Pt/C) in alkaline electrolyte. This methodology provides a route for atomic-level design of high-performance ORR electrocatalyst.

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