期刊
GREEN ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
卷 8, 期 1, 页码 224-232出版社
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gee.2021.03.0122468-0257
关键词
Carbon materials; Electrocatalysis; Oxygen reduction reaction; Solid -phase synthesis; Zn-air battery
Defective graphene catalysts were synthesized by pyrolyzing a mixture of glucose and carbon nitride, showing higher power density in a primary Zn-air battery compared to commercial Pt/C catalyst. This study presents a facile and low-cost strategy for the preparation of highly active nanocarbon electrocatalysts.
Defect-engineered carbon materials have been emerged as promising electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in metal-air batteries. Developing a facile strategy for the preparation of highly active nanocarbon electrocatalysts remains challenging. Herein, a low-cost and simple route is developed to synthesize defective graphene by pyrolyzing the mixture of glucose and carbon nitride. Molecular dynamics simulations reveal that the graphene formation is ascribed to two-dimensional layered feature of carbon nitride, and high compatibility of carbon nitride/glucose systems. Structural measurements suggest that the graphene possesses rich edge and topological defects. The graphene catalyst exhibits higher power density than commercial Pt/C catalyst in a primary Zn-air battery. Combining experimental results and theoretical thermodynamic analysis, it is identified that graphitic nitrogen-modified topological defects at carbon framework edges are responsible for the decent ORR performance. The strategy presented in this work can be can be scaled up readily to fabricate defective carbon materials. (c) 2021 Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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