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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 444, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.136433
Keywords
Carbon nanosheet; Fe-N-C; Heteroatomic doping; pH-universal electrocatalysts; Oxygen reduction reaction
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51702176, 51972178]
- Zhejiang Pro-vincial Nature Science Foundation [LY20E020009]
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In this study, we demonstrated the rational preparation of S-modified Fe-N-C nanosheet catalysts with hierarchical porous architecture, large specific surface area, and controlled S doping. The catalysts showed outstanding oxygen reduction reaction activity, with lower potential, higher diffusion-limited current density, and excellent stability compared to commercial Pt/C and advanced pH-universal ORR catalysts.
Constructing inexpensive, efficient, and stable pH-universal oxygen reduction electrocatalysts with controlled distribution of active species is of great importance for the exploration of green energy conversion devices. Herein, we demonstrated the rational preparation of S-modified Fe-N-C nanosheet catalysts with hierarchical porous architecture, large specific surface area (up to 1471 m(2) g(-1)) and controlled S doping (up to 12.3 at.%) by the co-pyrolysis of cysteine, FeCl3 with Zn-mediated MgO template. Merited from rich and accessible active sites, the catalysts display outstanding oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity in terms of very small Ej3 (potential@3 mA cm(-2), 0.87 V in 0.1 M KOH, 0.66 V in 0.1 M PBS (pH7.4) and 0.64 V in 0.5 M H2SO4) and overwhelming diffusion-limited current density (9.8, 6.1, 10.3 mA cm(-2) in alkaline, neutral, acidic media, respectively), along with extremely respectable stability (~90% activity retention for 53200, 26728, 43200 s in alkaline, neutral, acidic media, respectively), which underscore comparable or even better overall performance than commercial Pt/C and advanced pH-universal ORR catalysts ever reported. The as-assembled primary alkaline zinc-air battery delivers considerately large peak power density of 205 mW cm(-2) and energy density up to 990.6 Wh kg(Zn)(-1) at 10 mA cm(-2) (115 mW cm(-2) and 676.7 Wh kg(Zn)(-1) for Pt/C-based battery), implying its highly promising application in practical energy conversion devices.
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