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CATALYSIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 23, Pages 7764-7772Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1cy01195b
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFB0101312]
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In this study, it was shown through density functional theory that phosphorus or sulfur doping improves the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) performance of the M-N-4 structure, and adsorbing oxygen atoms at the doped sites can disrupt the scaling relationship of ORR.
The structure of M-N-4, in which one metal atom is anchored by 4 N atoms, is the main active structure of N-doped carbon-based single-atom catalysts (SACs). However, we still lack efficient strategies for improving their activity. In this DFT study, M-N-4 is doped with phosphorus or sulfur, which can be realized in many experiments by the addition of a P/S source. Previous studies simply attributed the improved activity of the metal site to the electronic effect of non-metal doping using the d-band center theory, which is inaccurate for understanding the ORR performance in the P/S-doped M-N-4. We found that the strong interactions between P/S and O cause the doping site to be occupied by adsorbed O atoms, whose effects on the ORR process have been ignored for a long time. The local collaborative structure further stabilizes OOH*/OH* and weakens on metal sites by hydrogen bond and repulsive interactions, for which the scaling relationship of ORR could be broken. In our P/S-doped models, the onset potentials of ORR in the 4e(-) mechanism on M-1-N-4 (M-1 = Co, Ni, Cu, Rh, Ir, and Pt) and those in the 2e(-) mechanism on M-2-N-4 (M-2 = Ni, Cu, Pd, Ag, Pt, and Au) has increased.
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