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Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Carbon Nanotube with Doped Co and N Atoms and its Catalytic Applications in Hydrogen Production
Published on: December 6, 2021
An iron and lanthanide heterobimetallic coordination polymer derived electrocatalyst showing enhanced activity and
Xin Liu1, Peng-Peng Guo1, Kun-Zu Yang1
1Key Lab for Advanced Materials, School of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, P. R. China. liujingang@ecust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
It is desirable to develop noble-metal-free electrocatalysts with both excellent activity and stability for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in clean energy conversion devices. Herein, we report an Fe, La co-doped FeLaNC electrocatalyst obtained by pyrolyzing a heterobimetallic coordination polymer [La2L3(CH3OH)4]∞ loaded on carbonized ZIF-8, which was synthesized from 1,1'-ferrocenedicarboxylic acid (H2L1) and lanthanum salt. The FeLaNC catalyst exhibited higher ORR activity with a half-wave potential (E1/2) of 0.874 V (vs. RHE) than the control catalyst FeNC (E1/2 = 0.864 V) without the La dopant as well as commercial 20 wt% Pt/C (E1/2 = 0.862 V) in 0.1 M KOH solution, and FeLaNC displayed excellent stability with negligible half-wave potential decay after 10 000 potential cycles. When FeLaNC was applied as a cathodic electrocatalyst in Zn-air batteries (ZABs), the open circuit voltage (OCV) and maximum power density (Pmax) of the FeLaNC-based ZABs reached 1.46 V and 130 mW cm-2, respectively, which were significantly higher than those of Pt/C (OCV = 1.41 V and Pmax = 120 mW cm-2). The introduction of La3+ into Fe-N-C catalysts not only promoted ORR activity by regulating the electron density of Fe-N sites but also enhanced the stability by eliminating the harmful radicals, which provided an effective approach to prepare high-performance and stable electrocatalysts to be applied in energy conversion devices.
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