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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
卷 10, 期 6, 页码 1589-1596出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8sc04596h
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21676100, 21703093]
- Guangdong Natural Science Foundation [2017A030312005, 2017A030310600]
- Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou City [201707010058]
- Youth Innovation Talent Project for the Universities of Guangdong [2016KQNCX095]
- Special Talent Fund of Lingnan Normal University [ZL1805]
Nitrogen-doped carbon materials (NCs) are extensively studied for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, the nature of active sites of pyridinic nitrogen (N-P) or graphitic nitrogen (N-G) on NCs is still under debate. Herein, we demonstrated that the ORR activity of NCs in alkaline media depended on the electronic synergism between N-P and N-G, rather than any single type of N. We measured the transferable electrons of NCs by absorption spectroscopy using 7'7'8'8-tetracyanoquinodimethane as an electron acceptor. The transferable electron amount of NCs is relevant to either N-P or N-G, leading to the [N-P]:[N-G] ratio as an electron transfer descriptor of NCs in a reverse volcano curve manner across nineteen NCs. The similar dependence of ORR activity on the [N-P]:[N-G] ratio of NCs was also discovered, demonstrating the synergistic effect of N-P and N-G. These results provide a new angle to understand the nature of ORR activity of NCs and optimize the ORR catalyst.
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