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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 5, Issue 8, Pages 3315-3319Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4sc01477d
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-0304508, DMR-0969301]
- U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory [DEFE0004000]
- CRP Consortium at Carnegie Mellon University
- Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Fellowship
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [969301] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Binder-free films of nitrogen-enriched nanocarbons, prepared by the pyrolysis of polyacrylonitrile-block-poly(n-butyl acrylate) copolymer drop-casted on glassy carbon disk electrode, exhibited high electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), matching that of Pt-based electrocatalyst. Dependence of the activity on pyrolysis temperature revealed that it is governed by the interplay of nitrogen content and electrical conductivity of the material. It was demonstrated that a nanocarbon formed by pyrolysis at 800 degrees C provided both large number of electrons transferred and high kinetic current density. ORR performance has been shown to critically depend on the presence of a nanoporous structure, suggesting that it facilitates high density and accessibility of catalytic sites, such as nitrogen-terminated edges of nanographitic domains.
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