Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 215, Issue -, Pages 216-220Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2012.04.057
Keywords
Nitrogen-doped; Carbon nanotubes; Oxygen reduction reaction; Electrocatalysis
Funding
- China National 973 Program [2012CB215500, 2012CB720300]
- NSFC of China [20936008, 21176327]
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The aligned nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (NCNT) with bamboo-like structure are synthesized via thermal chemical vapor deposition using melamine and urea as different nitrogen precursors. Meanwhile, ferrocene is used as catalyst and carbon precursor. The resulting NCNT with melamine (M-NCNT) have shown superior ORR performance in terms of limiting current density and number of electrons transferred. Further characterizations by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Raman spectroscopy illustrated higher nitrogen content and more defects in M-NCNT compared to that in NCNT with urea (U-NCNT), which indicate the important role of the nitrogen precursor in nitrogen content and structure of NCNT. It is concluded that higher nitrogen content and more defects of NCNT lead to high performance of ORR. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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