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Temperature-programmed Deoxygenation of Acetic Acid on Molybdenum Carbide Catalysts
Published on: February 7, 2017
Molybdenum carbide promotion on Fe-N-doped carbon nanolayers facilely prepared for enhanced oxygen reduction
1Key Lab of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China. dingwp@nju.edu.cn.
Abstract:
The catalysts towards the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are the key materials for fuel cells and have stimulated continuous investigations on rational designs. Apart from the popular strategies reported, we demonstrate here a facile method resulting in a nanocomposite composed of molybdenum carbide (Mo2C) nanoparticles embedded and buried in Fe-N-doped carbon nanolayers by directly pyrolyzing the mixture of Fe2(MoO4)3 and dicyandiamide. The underlying Mo2C donates electrons of higher energy to the exterior N-containing carbon nanolayers (NC) and strongly couples with the active sites induced by Fe in the NC layer, leading to significant improvement at half-wave potential with respect to the control sample without Mo2C. The catalyst as a whole exhibits a fairly good ORR performance comparable to commercial Pt/C. Moreover, the method is extremely simplified and the material shows better long-term stability and tolerance to the methanol crossover in comparison with Pt/C.
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