Journal
NANO RESEARCH
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 207-213Publisher
TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-016-0982-4
Keywords
porous nanostructure; cobalt manganese oxides; electrocatalyst; oxygen reduction reaction
Categories
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21303249, 81401464, 21425103, 21501192]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [SBK201341397]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
In this article, we report a facile precursor pyrolysis method to prepare porous spinel-type cobalt manganese oxides (CoxMn3-xO4) with controllable morphologies and crystalline structures. The capping agent in the reaction was found to be crucial on the formation of the porous spinel cobalt manganese oxides from cubic Co2MnO4 nanorods to tetragonal CoMn2O4 microspheres and tetragonal CoMn2O4 cubes, respectively. All of the prepared spinel materials exhibit brilliant oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysis along with high stability. In particular, the cubic Co2MnO4 nanorods show the best performance with an onset potential of 0.9 V and a half-wave potential of 0.72 V which are very close to the commercial Pt/C. Meanwhile, the cubic Co2MnO4 nanorods present superior stability with negligible degradation of their electrocatalytic activity after a continuous operation time of 10,000 seconds, which is much better than the commercial Pt/C electrocatalyst.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available