Journal
NANO RESEARCH
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages 1171-1177Publisher
TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3620-8
Keywords
van der Waals heterojunction (vdWsH); Li-CO2 battery; boron nitride-graphene oxide vdWsH; non-metal catalysis
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- National Natural Science Foundations of China [21771024, 21871028]
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Reasonably regulating electronic coupling can enhance the catalytic activity. Constructing van der Waals heterojunction based on 2D materials is a potential way to optimize material properties. Introducing inert h-boron nitride in non-metal reduced graphene oxide catalysts can significantly improve the performance of Li-CO2 batteries.
Reasonably regulating electronic coupling to promote charge transfer and exciton separation has been regarded a promising approach in catalysis. The material engineering of van der Waals heterojunction (vdWsH) based on two-dimensional (2D) materials would be a potential way to optimize the as-prepared extrinsic physicochemical characteristics. However, it was still an almost uncultivated land waiting for exploration in catalysis. Herein, we introduced the inert h-boron nitride (h-BN) in non-metal reduced graphene oxide (GN) catalysts and constructed BN-GN vdWsH. The theoretical calculation demonstrated that the h-BN can effectively modify the electronic properties of graphene. With the introduction of h-BN, the BN-GN vdWsH can obviously enhance the catalytic activity of Li-CO2 battery. The existence of BN-GN vdWsH can reduce the overpotential more than 700 mV compared with reduced graphene oxide during the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) and CO2 evolution reaction (CO2ER), and it extended cyclic stability more than three times, which was one of the most outstanding non-metallic catalysts. The reasonable structure design made it work as a high efficient electrocatalyst, which shed light on the development for functional treatment of catalytic materials.
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