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CATALYSIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 16, Pages 6365-6371Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6cy01031h
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China under the National Basic Research Program [2012CB215500, 2012CB932800]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21201134, 21571145]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20130370]
- Creative Research Groups of Hubei Province [2014CFA007]
- Largescale Instrument and Equipment Sharing Foundation of Wuhan University
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Active and stable electrocatalysts based on earth-abundant elements for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are crucially important for the utilization of renewable energy. Herein, we reported the synthesis of Fe3C nanorod encapsulated, N-doped carbon nanotubes grown on N-doped porous carbon sheets (Fe3C@NCNT/NPC) by simply annealing a Fe-based MOF (MIL-88B) loaded with melamine at 800 degrees C in N-2. Thanks to the synergistic effect of the high density of Fe-N active sites and electric conductance offered by the unique hybrid structure, the as-prepared Fe3C@NCNT/NPC hybrid exhibited a half-wave potential ca. 60 mV more positive and a durability performance much better than that of Pt/C for ORR, and an overpotential ca. 20 mV lower and a Tafel slope much smaller than that of IrO2 for OER, which make it one of the best reported nonprecious metal bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen electrode reactions.
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