Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Volume 22, Issue 36, Pages 19132-19138Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2jm33893a
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20671003, 20971003]
- Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education [209060]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET 11-0888]
- Science and Technological Fund of Anhui Province for Outstanding Youth [10040606Y32]
- Foundation of Key Project of Natural Science of Anhui Education Committee [KJ2012A143]
- Program for Innovative Research Team at Anhui Normal University
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This paper reported a facile template-free route to prepare hierarchical Fe3O4-Co3O4 yolk-shell nanostructures. These highly porous architectures, with a diameter of about 2 mm, were assembled from Co3O4 flower-like shells and Fe3O4 sphere core. A series of experiments with different conditions were carried out to determine the key factors in this typical solvothermal synthesis that led to the formation of the obtained yolk-shell nanostructures, and a possible growth mechanism was proposed. Sequentially, some other similar metal oxide nanostructures were also obtained in this way. Importantly, the obtained Fe3O4-Co3O4 yolk-shell nanostructures exhibit excellent electrocatalytic ORR performance. The half-wave potential of the yolk-shell nanostructures is about 5 and 80 mV positive-shifted compared to that of the independent Co3O4 and Fe3O4 nanoparticles. The current density of O-2 reduction for the Fe3O4-Co3O4 yolk-shell nanostructures is also much higher than that of Co3O4 and Fe3O4 nanoparticles. The enhanced electrocatalytic performance for Fe3O4-Co3O4 yolk-shell nanostructures may make them available to be an efficient and cheap noble-metal free cathodic catalyst for PEMFCs.
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