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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
卷 113, 期 -, 页码 735-740出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.06.048
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Titanium oxynitride; Carbothermal reduction; TiO2; ORR; PEFC
For use as the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalyst in polymer electrolyte fuel cell cathodes, carbonsupported titanium oxynitride (TiOxNy-C) nanoparticles with a size of approximately 5 nm or less were synthesized without using NH3 gas. A sol-gel route developed for the synthesis of pure rutile TiO2 nanopowders was modified to prepare the carbon-supported titanium oxide nanoparticles (TiOx-C). For the first time, N atoms were doped into TiOx solely by heating TiOx-C under an inexpensive N-2 atmosphere at 873 K for 3 h, which could be due to carbothermal reduction. The TiOx-C powder was also heated under NH3 gas at various temperatures (873-1273 K) and durations (3-30 h). This step resulted in the formation of a TiN phase irrespective of the heating conditions. Both N-2- and NH3-treated TiOxNy-C did not crystallize well; however, the former showed a mass activity more than three times larger than that of the latter at 0.74 V versus the standard hydrogen electrode. Thus, titanium oxide nanoparticles doped with a small amount of N atoms are suggested to be responsible for catalyzing ORR in the case of N-2-treated TiOxNy-C. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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