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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
卷 57, 期 35, 页码 16739-16754出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s10853-022-07653-3
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- IMPACT ULHyS, Universite de Lorraine Hydrogene Science et Technologie'' project of the Lorraine Universite d'Excellence'' (Investissements d'avenir e ANR)
- french PIA project Lorraine Universite d'Excellence [ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE]
This study examines the effect of pretreatment and doping on the ORR activity of multiwalled carbon nanotubes. The results show that co-doping is an effective method for improving ORR activity, with the doping changing the charge and spin density. The synthesized samples exhibited superior ORR activity.
This study examines the effect of pretreatment and doping to enhance the ORR activity of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). Melamine and thio-urea are chosen as precursors for mono and co-doping, respectively. A series of samples with pristine and pretreated CNTs are prepared and characterized physicochemically by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electrochemically by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and linear sweep voltammetry (LSV). The obtained results show that co-doping is an effective way for improving ORR activity, due to the synergistic effect of N and S for changing the charge and spin density, respectively. Moreover, thio-urea favors the proportion of pyridinic and graphitic nitrogen configurations within doped samples. As a consequence, our synthesis method gives samples with superior ORR activity. The maximum ORR activity is obtained for NS-OX-CNTs which shows an over potential of 0.95 V vs RHE at 0.1 mA/cm(2), which is comparable to Pt/C (0.98 V vs RHE). The electron transfer number (n) is calculated as 3.9 at 0.4 V which suggests that the ORR proceeds through a dominant 4 e(-) path. These comparable half-cell results to that of Pt/C pave the way for further testing as cathode materials for anion exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFC).
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