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Preparation of Biomass-based Mesoporous Carbon with Higher Nitrogen-/Oxygen-chelating Adsorption for CuII Through Microwave Pre-Pyrolysis
Published on: February 12, 2019
From waste plastics to layered porous nitrogen-doped carbon materials with excellent HER performance
Chao Juan1, Bing Lan1, Chuanchuan Zhao1
1Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ministry of Education, National Engineering Laboratory of Eco-Friendly Polymeric Materials (Sichuan), College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China. fanzhang@scu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Herein, layered porous nitrogen-doped carbon sheets (LPNCS) prepared from waste plastics are employed as an electrocatalytic carrier for the HER under alkaline conditions. The N-doped coral-like nanostructure with abundant meso- and macropores would shorten the proton diffusion pathway, reduce the mass transfer resistance and promote Ru dispersion. The prepared Ru/LPNCS shows an excellent performance with an overpotential of 15 mV at 10 mA cm-2, even lower than that of most reported Ru-based catalysts and the commercial Pt/C catalyst (17 mV), which provides a potential application for converting waste plastics into highly efficient HER catalysts.
