Porous Carbon Nanoparticles Co-Doped with Nitrogen and Iron as an Efficient Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) performance of
iron and nitrogen co-doped porous carbon nanoparticles (Fe-NPC)
with various physical and (electro) chemical properties have been
investigated. Fe-NPC nanoparticles are synthesized via a facile
soft-templating procedure by using Iron (III) chloride hexa-hydrate as
iron precursor and aminophenol-formaldehyde resin as both carbon
and nitrogen precursor. Fe-NPC nanoparticles shows high surface area
(443.83 m2g-1), high pore volume (0.52 m3g-1), narrow mesopore size
distribution (ca. 3.8 nm), high conductivity (IG/ID=1.04), high kinetic
limiting current (11.71 mAcm-2) and more positive onset potential
(-0.106 V) compared to metal-free NPC nanoparticles (-0.295V)
which make it high efficient ORR metal-free catalysts in alkaline
solution. This study may pave the way of feasibly designing iron and
nitrogen containing carbon materials (Fe-N-C) for highly efficient
oxygen reduction electro-catalysis.
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via Thermal Annealing Graphite Oxide with Melamine and Its Excellent
Electrocatalysis. ACS Nano, 2011. 5(6): p. 4350-4358.
[1] Fillol, J.L., et al., Efficient Water Oxidation Catalysts Based on Readily
Available Iron Coordination Complexes. Nat Chem, 2011. 3 (10): p.
807-813.
[2] Subbaraman, R., et al., Trends in Activity for the Water Electrolyser
Reactions on 3d M (Ni,Co,Fe,Mn) Hydr(oxy)oxide Catalysts. Nat Mater,
2012. 11(6): p. 550-557.
[3] Candelaria, S.L., et al., Nanostructured Carbon for Energy Storage and
Conversion. Nano Energy, 2012. 1(2): p. 195-220. [4] Kunze, J. and U. Stimming, Electrochemical Versus Heat-Engine Energy
Technology: A Tribute to Wilhelm Ostwald’s Visionary Statements.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2009. 48 (49): p. 9230-9237.
[5] Liang, Y., et al., Strongly Coupled Inorganic/Nanocarbon Hybrid
Materials for Advanced Electrocatalysis. Journal of the American
Chemical Society, 2013. 135(6): p. 2013-2036.
[6] Steele, B.C.H. and A. Heinzel, Materials for Fuel-Cell Technologies.
Nature, 2001. 414(6861): p. 345-352.
[7] Armand, M. and J.M. Tarascon, Building Better Batteries. Nature, 2008.
451(7179): p. 652-657.
[8] Moussallem, I., et al., Chlor-Alkali Electrolysis with Oxygen Depolarized
Cathodes: History, Present Status and Future Prospects. Journal of
Applied Electrochemistry, 2008. 38(9): p. 1177-1194.
[9] Kinoshita, K., Carbon: Electrochemical and Physicochemical Properties.
1988: Wiley-Interscience.
[10] GreeleyJ, et al., Alloys of Platinum and Early Transition Metals as
Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts. Nat Chem, 2009. 1(7): p. 552-556.
[11] Mazumder, V., Y. Lee, and S. Sun, Recent Development of Active
Nanoparticle Catalysts for Fuel Cell Reactions. Advanced Functional
Materials, 2010. 20(8): p. 1224-1231.
[12] Li, X.-H. and M. Antonietti, Polycondensation of Boron- and
Nitrogen-Codoped Holey Graphene Monoliths from Molecules:
Carbocatalysts for Selective Oxidation. Angewandte Chemie
International Edition, 2013. 52(17): p. 4572-4576.
[13] Zheng, Y., et al., Nanoporous Graphitic-C3N4@Carbon Metal-Free
Electrocatalysts for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction. Journal of the
American Chemical Society, 2011. 133(50): p. 20116-20119.
[14] Liang, J., et al., N-Doped Graphene Natively Grown on Hierarchical
Ordered Porous Carbon for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction. Advanced
Materials, 2013. 25(43): p. 6226-6231.
[15] Zhu, Y., et al., Unravelling the Structure of Electrocatalytically Active
Fe–N Complexes in Carbon for Oxygen Reduction Reaction.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014: p. n/a-n/a.
[16] Lv, L.-B., et al., Anchoring Cobalt Nanocrystals through the Plane of
Graphene: Highly Integrated Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction
Reaction. Chemistry of Materials, 2015. 27(2): p. 544-549.
[17] Wei, J., et al., A Controllable Synthesis of Rich Nitrogen-Doped Ordered
Mesoporous Carbon for CO2 Capture and Supercapacitors. Advanced
Functional Materials, 2013. 23(18): p. 2322-2328.
[18] Zhang, D., et al., Nitrogen and Sulfur Co-Doped Ordered Mesoporous
Carbon with Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitance Performance.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013. 1(26): p. 7584-7591.
[19] Zhao, Y., et al., Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanomaterials as Non-Metal
Electrocatalysts for Water Oxidation. Nat Commun, 2013. 4.
[20] Sheng, Z.-H., et al., Catalyst-Free Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene
via Thermal Annealing Graphite Oxide with Melamine and Its Excellent
Electrocatalysis. ACS Nano, 2011. 5(6): p. 4350-4358.
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iron and nitrogen co-doped porous carbon nanoparticles (Fe-NPC)
with various physical and (electro) chemical properties have been
investigated. Fe-NPC nanoparticles are synthesized via a facile
soft-templating procedure by using Iron (III) chloride hexa-hydrate as
iron precursor and aminophenol-formaldehyde resin as both carbon
and nitrogen precursor. Fe-NPC nanoparticles shows high surface area
(443.83 m2g-1), high pore volume (0.52 m3g-1), narrow mesopore size
distribution (ca. 3.8 nm), high conductivity (IG/ID=1.04), high kinetic
limiting current (11.71 mAcm-2) and more positive onset potential
(-0.106 V) compared to metal-free NPC nanoparticles (-0.295V)
which make it high efficient ORR metal-free catalysts in alkaline
solution. This study may pave the way of feasibly designing iron and
nitrogen containing carbon materials (Fe-N-C) for highly efficient
oxygen reduction electro-catalysis.", keywords = "Electro-catalyst, mesopore structure, oxygen
reduction reaction, soft-template.", volume = "9", number = "8", pages = "1036-7", }
