Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 1894-1901Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b08721
Keywords
atomic boron-doped Co-N-C species; oxygen evolution reaction; oxygen reduction reaction; Zn-air batteries; electrocatalyst
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21571157, U1604123, 51173170]
- Outstanding Young Talent Research Fund of Zhengzhou University [1521320001]
- Young Outstanding Teachers of Univeristy in Henan Province [2016-130]
- Open Project Foundation of Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education) [2017-29]
- Nankai University
- Open Project Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparation of Jilin University
- NSERC
- NRC
- CIHR of Canada
- University of Saskatchewan
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Structural and compositional engineering of atomic scaled metal-N-C catalysts is important yet challenging in boosting their performance for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Here, boron (B)-doped Co-N-C active sites confined in hierarchical porous carbon sheets (denoted as Co-N,B-CSs) were obtained by a soft template self-assembly pyrolysis method. Significantly, the introduced B element gives an electron deficient site that can activate the electron transfer around the Co-N-C sites, strengthen the interaction with oxygenated species, and thus accelerate reaction kinetics in the 4e(-) processed ORR and OER. As a result, the catalyst showed Pt-like ORR performance with a half-wave potential (E-1/2) of 0.83 V versus (vs) RHE, a limiting current density of about 5.66 mA cm(-2), and higher durability (almost no decay after 5000 cycles) than Pt/C catalysts. Moreover, a rechargeable Zn-air battery device comprising this Co-N,B-CSs catalyst shows superior performance with an open-circuit potential of similar to 1.4 V, a peak power density of similar to 100.4 mW cm(-2), as well as excellent durability (128 cycles for 14 h of operation). DFT calculations further demonstrated that the coupling of Co-N-x active sites with B atoms prefers to adsorb an 02 molecule in side-on mode and accelerates ORR kinetics.
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