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Functionalized Lignin for Fabrication of FeCoNi Nanoparticles-Enriched 3D Carbon Hybrid: From Waste to a High-Performance Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalyst

Journal

CHEMELECTROCHEM
Volume 9, Issue 13, Pages -

Publisher

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/celc.202200394

Keywords

Lignin; Oxygen evolution reaction; FeCoNi nanoparticles-modified nitrogen-doped carbon hybrid; Synergistic effect; Heterojunction

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [2212200852]
  2. Key Technologies Research and Development Program of China [SQ2019YFC180057]

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In this study, a simple oxidation-coordination method was developed to synthesize a FeCoNi nanoparticles-modified nitrogen-doped carbon hybrid with lignin as the carbon precursor for oxygen evolution reaction. The obtained material exhibited high OER activity due to the increased functional groups and abundant active sites.
The application of lignin-derived carbon materials in energy conversion is hindered by the complex molecular structure and few metal coordination sites of lignin. In this work, a simple oxidation-coordination method was developed for scalable synthesis of a FeCoNi nanoparticles-modified nitrogen-doped carbon hybrid (designated as O-FeCo40Ni10-C) with lignin as carbon precursor for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Specifically, a Fenton reaction-driven pre-oxidation process changed the molecular structure of alkali lignin and increased functional groups, which contributes to the efficient incorporation of metal active sites into lignin-derived carbon materials. Benefiting from abundant active sites, the synergistic effect of CoFe/NiFe compositions and interconnected porous structure, the obtained O-FeCo40Ni10-C exhibited a high OER activity. It only required an overpotential of 280 mV to drive current densities of 10 mA cm(-2) in 1 M KOH solution. Moreover, the turnover frequency of O-FeCo40Ni10-C was 0.030 and 0.185 s(-1) at the overpotential of 300 and 400 mV, respectively. This work provided an environmentally-friendly strategy to synthesize lignin-derived catalyst for OER and expanded the application of lignin in energy conversion filed.

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