Journal
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
Volume 256, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.117778
Keywords
Urea; Carbon tube; Single atom; Bifunctional electrocatalyst; Zn-air battery
Funding
- Shanghai Municipal Natural Science Foundation [17ZR1432200]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21774095]
- Tongji University
- Young Thousand Talented Program
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Single atom (SA) catalysts have recently emerged as promising candidates to substitute noble metals catalysts. Herein, a urea-bridge method has been exploited to fabricate stable metallic single atom dispersed on nitrogen-doped carbon tubes. The preparation involved a facile pyrolysis of ellagic acid (EA)-metal coordination compound mediated through the usage of urea. During the synthesis process, urea acted as a bridge to drive the formation of hollow carbon tube as well as to provide N sites to immobilize SA in a space-confined environment. The active SA sites together with the accessibility and rapid mass transport from the hollow substrate endowed the obtained EA-SAs (e.g. EA-Co-900, EA-Ni-900) outstanding performances in oxygen reduction/evolution reactions. Furthermore, EA-Co-900 showed a high power density (e.g. 73 mW cm(-2), at 65 mA cm(-2)) and excellent durability of 110 h at 20 mA cm(-2) when assembled into rechargeable zinc-air batteries.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available