Journal
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 119, Issue -, Pages 144-154Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.12.072
Keywords
Oxygen reduction reaction; Non-noble-metal electrocatalyst; Carbon nanotube; Citrate acid; In-situ synthesis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51273103, 50873050, 21106079]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB215500]
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This paper established an in-situ synthesis strategy that the mixing solution of aniline, CNTs and CoCl2 was directly reduced to prepare polyaniline-cobalt-carbon nanotube (PANI-Co-CNT) electrocatalyst. Furthermore, this strategy was effectively modified by pretreating CoCl2 precursor with citric acid (CA), forming 2-4 nm cobalt nanoparticles uniformly distributed on PANI-CNT support with porous structure. The control experiments revealed various PANI states in the growth stage, further proposing the self-assembly mechanisms in these two routes with and without CA pretreatment. These two PANI-Co-CNT electrocatalysts were also checked by oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in acid environment, to corroborate their basically 4-electron processes. Inspiringly, the large activity and stability for the pretreated route could be comparable with those of the advanced electrocatalysts. All these progresses lay a bottom-up approach for future electrocatalysts. Crown Copyright (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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