Boron- and Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots/Graphene Hybrid Nanoplatelets as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction
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- 作者：Huilong Fei ; Ruquan Ye ; Gonglan Ye ; Yongji Gong ; Zhiwei Peng ; Xiujun Fan ; Errol L. G. Samuel ; Pulickel M. Ajayan ; James M. Tour
- 刊名：ACS Nano
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：October 28, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：8
- 期：10
- 页码：10837-10843
- 全文大小：537K
- ISSN：1936-086X
文摘
The scarcity and high cost of platinum-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has limited the commercial and scalable use of fuel cells. Heteroatom-doped nanocarbon materials have been demonstrated to be efficient alternative catalysts for ORR. Here, graphene quantum dots, synthesized from inexpensive and earth-abundant anthracite coal, were self-assembled on graphene by hydrothermal treatment to form hybrid nanoplatelets that were then codoped with nitrogen and boron by high-temperature annealing. This hybrid material combined the advantages of both components, such as abundant edges and doping sites, high electrical conductivity, and high surface area, which makes the resulting materials excellent oxygen reduction electrocatalysts with activity even higher than that of commercial Pt/C in alkaline media.