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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 142, Issue 41, Pages 17524-17530Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c07249
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51125007, 51802011, 51432003]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFB0105500]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [JD1906]
- Fund of High-Performance Carbon-Based Electrodes for Energy Storage
- Start-Up Fund for Talent Introduction of the Beijing University of Chemical Technology [buctrc201806]
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Two-dimensional (2D) conjugated aromatic networks (CAN) have been fabricated by ball milling of polymeric cobalt phthalocyanine precursors edge-functionalized with different aromatic acid anhydride substituents. The optimal CAN, obtained by using tetraphenylphthalic anhydride, consists of uniform and thin (2.9 nm) layers with a high BET surface (92 m(2) g(-1)), resulting in well-defined Co-N-4 active sites with a high degree of exposure. Thence, this material exhibits excellent electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction (44 mA mg(cat)(-1)). Compared to a benchmark Pt/C catalyst, this value denotes 1.2- and 6.0-fold enhancements, respectively, in terms of the mass of Pt and total Pt/C. When utilized as air electrode catalysts in Zn-air batteries, this material provides a maximum areal power density (137 mW cm(-2)) and mass power density (0.68 W mg(cat)(-1)), values which also clearly surpass those of benchmark Pt/C catalyst. This support-free and pyrolysis-free strategy developed in this work delivers a novel route for the applications of 2D materials in clean energy conversion and storage.
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