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Cobalt-Containing Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Materials Derived from Saccharides as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Journal

CATALYSTS
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/catal12050568

Keywords

electrocatalysis; oxygen reduction reaction; non-precious metal catalyst; MNC catalyst; carbon nitride template

Funding

  1. Ministry of Education and Research, Estonia, through Estonian Research Council [PRG4, PRG723, PRG1509]
  2. EU through the European Regional Development Fund [TK141, TK134, TK143]

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In this study, cobalt-containing nitrogen-doped porous carbon materials were prepared from mixtures of saccharides, cobalt nitrate, and dicyandiamide. The glucose-derived material with optimized cobalt content showed excellent ORR activity and high methanol tolerance, as well as good stability and low peroxide yield. Materials derived from various saccharides can serve as inexpensive and sustainable precursors for synthesizing active catalyst materials for anion exchange membrane fuel cells.
The development of non-precious metal electrocatalysts towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is crucial for the commercialisation of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. In this work, cobalt-containing nitrogen-doped porous carbon materials were prepared by a pyrolysis of mixtures of saccharides, cobalt nitrate and dicyandiamide, which acts as a precursor for reactive carbon nitride template and a nitrogen source. The rotating disk electrode (RDE) experiments in 0.1 M KOH solution showed that the glucose-derived material with optimised cobalt content had excellent ORR activity, which was comparable to that of 20 wt% Pt/C catalyst. In addition, the catalyst exhibited high tolerance to methanol, good stability in short-time potential cycling test and low peroxide yield. The materials derived from xylan, xylose and cyclodextrin displayed similar activities, indicating that various saccharides can be used as inexpensive and sustainable precursors to synthesise active catalyst materials for anion exchange membrane fuel cells.

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