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NANOSCALE
卷 2, 期 6, 页码 981-987出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b9nr00405j
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- Max Planck Research School Surface and Interface Engineering in Advanced Materials (Sur-Mat)
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Research Department Interfacial Systems Chemistry (IFSC) at the Ruhr-University Bochum
Nitrogen doping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was achieved by the carbonization of a polyaniline (PANI) coating. First, the CNTs were partially oxidized with KMnO(4) to obtain oxygen-containing functional groups. Depending on the KMnO(4) loading, thin layers of birnessite-type MnO(2) (10 wt% and 30 wt%) were obtained by subsequent thermal decomposition. CNT-supported MnO(2) was then used for the oxidative polymerization of aniline in acidic solution, and the resulting PANI-coated CNTs were finally heated at 550 degrees C and 850 degrees C in inert gas. The samples were characterized by transmission electron microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. A thin layer of carbonized PANI was observed on the CNT surface, and the surface nitrogen concentration of samples prepared from 30% MnO(2) was found to amount to 7.6 at% and 3.8 at% after carbonization at 550 degrees C and 850 degrees C, respectively. These CNTs with nitrogen-containing shell were further studied by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and used as catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. The sample synthesized from 30 wt% MnO(2) followed by carbonization at 850 degrees C showed the best electrochemical performance indicating efficient nitrogen doping.
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