Novel synthesis of N-doped graphene as an efficient electrocatalyst towards oxygen reduction
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- 作者：Ruguang Ma ; Xiaodong Ren ; Bao Yu Xia ; Yao Zhou ; Chi Sun ; Qian Liu…
- 关键词：nitrogen doping ; graphene ; molecular dynamic simulation ; oxygen reduction reaction
- 刊名：Nano Research
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：March 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：9
- 期：3
- 页码：808-819
- 全文大小：3,330 KB
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Xiaodong Ren (1) (2)
Bao Yu Xia (3)
Yao Zhou (1) (2)
Chi Sun (1) (2)
Qian Liu (1) (2)
Jianjun Liu (1) (2)
Jiacheng Wang (1) (2)
1. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, China
2. Shanghai Institute of Materials Genome, 99 Shangda Road, Shanghai, 200444, China
3. School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore - 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
- 刊物主题：Chinese Library of Science
Chemistry
Nanotechnology - 出版者：Tsinghua University Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISSN：1998-0000
文摘
Nitrogen-doped graphene (NG) was successfully synthesized by a novel, facile, and scalable bottom-up method. The annealed NG (NG-A) possessed high specific surface area and a hierarchical porous texture, and exhibited remarkably improved electrocatalytic activity in the oxygen reduction reaction in both alkaline and acidic media. Ab initio molecular dynamic simulations indicated that rapid H transfer and the thermodynamic stability of six-membered N structures promoted the transformation of N-containing species from pyrrolic to pyridinic at 600 °C. In O2-staturated 0.1 M KOH solution, the half-wave potential (E 1/2) of NG-A was only 62 mV lower than that of a commercial Pt/C catalyst, and the limiting current density of NG-A was 0.5 mA·cm–2 larger than that of Pt/C. Koutecky–Levich (K–L) plots and rotating ring-disk electrode measurement indicated a four-electron-transfer pathway in NG-A, which could be ascribed to its high content of pyridinic N.