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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 556, Issue -, Pages 352-359Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2019.08.064
Keywords
Graphene; Iron carbide nanoparticles; Pyrolysis; Oxygen reduction reaction; Non-precious catalyst; Methanol resistance
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- Zhejiang Public Welfare Technology Application Research Project [LGG19B050001, LGG18E010001]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LY18B050005]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21475118, 21805245]
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Green and efficient non-precious metal electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are prepared to meet the increasing demand for clean, secure and sustainable energy. Herein, we report a novel and environmentally friendly strategy for synthesis of graphene-wrapped iron carbide (Fe7C3) nanoparticles supported on hierarchical fibrous N-doped graphene with open-mesoporous structures (Fe7C3/NG) by simply annealing the mixture of melamine, iron (II) phthalocyanine (FePc) and Fe2O3. The effects of the pyrolysis temperature and the molar ratio of FePc to melamine were critically examined in the controls. Remarkably, the Fe7C3/NG obtained at 800 degrees C (i.e. Fe7C3/NG-800) manifested the forward shifts in the onset potential (0.98 V) and half-wave potential (0.85 V) with respective to commercial Pt/C (50 wt%) in 0.1 M KOH, coupled with the great enhancement in the durability (still remained 92.11% of its initial current density even after 40,000 s) and strong methanol tolerance. This research presents a promising strategy for developing Pt-free non-precious efficient ORR electrocatalysts in fuel cells. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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