Journal
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 602, Issue -, Pages 799-809Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.06.068
Keywords
Carbon aerogels; Oxygen reduction reaction; Electrocatalysis; Hydrogen peroxide; Density functional theory
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51872013, 52073009, 51672019]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFA0206902]
- 111 Project [B14009]
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The boron and nitrogen co-doped porous carbon aerogel showed excellent electrocatalytic performance for H2O2 production in alkaline solution, with a high selectivity and efficiency.
The electrochemical synthesis of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) from two-electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e(-)ORR) is a promising alternative for producing chemicals on demand, but its widespread application is still hampered by the low efficiency. Here, we successfully prepared a boron and nitrogen co-doped porous carbon (B/N-C) aerogel with a tunable B, N co-doped configuration by the gelation of PVA-graphene, borax and PANI, followed by pyrolysis. Due to a hierarchical porous structure and optimized B, N co doping, B/N-C aerogel showed an excellent electrocatalytic performance for H2O2 production in alkaline solution with a high H2O2 selectivity (94.16%) at positive applied potential (0.6 V vs. RHE), superior than most of the other reported electrocatalysts. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) coupled with neighboring pyridinic-N species act as the active sites to lower free energy barrier for formation of HOO* intermediate, thus facilitating H2O2 production. Practically, B 2p electron plays an important role for the adsorption of HOO* intermediates. B and N co-doping into carbon materials provides an effective and facile method to reasonably construct carbon-based catalysts for electroreduction of O-2 to H2O2. (C) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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