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Published on: April 27, 2018
Development of high performance of Co/Fe/N/CNT nanocatalyst for oxygen reduction in microbial fuel cells
Liu Deng1, Ming Zhou, Chang Liu
1State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied, Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Renming Street 5625, Changchun, Jilin 130022, PR China. dengliu@ciac.jl.cn
Abstract:
In this paper, we synthesized a unique cathode catalyst Co/Fe/N/CNTs with high performance oxygen reduction. Through the pi-stacking force, the cobalt porphyrins (CoTMPP) and iron phthanlocyanine (FePc) were deposited to the carbon nanotubes (CNTs) sidewall. The CoTMPP/FePc functionalized CNTs were used as the precursor to prepare the Co/Fe/N/CNTs based oxygen reduction nanocatalyst through high-temperature pyrolysis. The as-prepared catalyst exhibited higher electrocatalytic activity for the reduction of dioxygen than that of the Co/Fe/N/graphite and commercial Pt/C. The high electrocatalytic activity and good stability for dioxygen reduction made the Co/Fe/N/CNT as a potential candidate for the efficient cathode material in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). The maximum power of the MFC using the Co/Fe/N/CNT as cathode catalyst is 751 mW m(-2), which was 1.5 times larger than the MFC with the commercial Pt/C catalyst under the same condition. Such an approach is useful for the improvement of the cathode performance and to provide the basis for the development of the efficient MFC cathodes.
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