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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 401, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2020.126001
Keywords
Metal-organic frameworks; Graphene; Core-shell structure; Electrocatalyst; Oxygen reduction reaction
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1703251, U1810113]
- Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province [2017ZDCXL-GY-10-01-02]
- Key Laboratory of Coal Resources Exploration and Comprehensive Utilization, Ministry of Land and Resources Open Research Topic [KF2016-4]
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It is of significance to replace Pt-based electrocatalyst with high activity and low price non-noble metal oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts for large-scale application of fuel cells. Herein, we display a kind of core-shell hybrid composed of Fe/Fe3C@nitrogen-doped carbon decorated on graphene (denoted as Fe/Fe3C@ NC-Gs) as the efficient ORR electrocatalyst. The optimal-performing Fe/Fe3C@NC-G-2 catalyst presents an outstanding ORR performance in terms of a high onset potential (E-onset) of 0.97 V (vs. RHE) and half-wave potential (E-1/2) of 0.88 V (vs. RHE), respectively, possible to rival those of the commercially available Pt/C in an alkaline electrolyte solution. Besides, the Fe/Fe3C@NC-G-2 catalyst manifests better stability and methanol tolerance than those of commercially available Pt/C, which is of importance for the excogitation and fabrication of novel electrocatalysts originated from non-precious metals. Accordingly, it is confirmed that the integration of Fe/Fe3C@NC and graphene enables plentiful active sites stemmed from different active species of Fe3C, Fe, and NC and intrinsic hierarchically porous structure with intimate contact of various components, which would give Fe/Fe3C@NC-G-2 a positive impact on ORR activity.
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