Boosting Oxygen Reduction Catalysis with Fe-N                         4                          Sites Decorated Porous Carbons toward Fuel Cells

Zhengkun Yang; Yu Wang; Mengzhao Zhu; Zhijun Li; Wenxing Chen; Weichen Wei; Tongwei Yuan; Yunteng Qu; Qian Xu; Changming Zhao; Xin Wang; Peng Li; Yafei Li; Yuen Wu; Yadong Li

doi:10.1021/acscatal.8b04381

Boosting Oxygen Reduction Catalysis with Fe-N ₄ Sites Decorated Porous Carbons toward Fuel Cells

Zhengkun Yang
, Yu Wang
, Mengzhao Zhu
, Zhijun Li
, Wenxing Chen
, Weichen Wei
, Tongwei Yuan
, Yunteng Qu
, Qian Xu
, Changming Zhao
, Xin Wang
, Peng Li
, Yafei Li^*
, Yuen Wu
, Yadong Li

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Material Science and Engineering

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Abstract

It is highly desired but remains a great challenge to develop nonprecious metal single-atom catalysts to supersede the Pt-based material for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Herein, we report a porous nitrogen-doped carbon matrix catalyst with 3.5 wt % single Fe atoms (Fe SAs/N-C) through a versatile molecules-confined pyrolysis strategy. In 0.1 M KOH condition, the Fe SAs/N-C catalyst possesses a half-wave potential of 0.91 V vs RHE. In a more challenging acidic solution, Fe SAs/N-C catalyst also offers good ORR activity, comparable with the commercial Pt/C. Impressively, Fe SAs/N-C shows extremely high stability both in alkaline and acidic media. In addition, this Fe SAs/N-C-derived Zn-air battery and proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) exhibit high performance. This work opens an avenue for designing and preparing single-atom catalysts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2158-2163
Number of pages	6
Journal	ACS Catalysis
Volume	9
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b04381
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2019

Keywords

Zn-air battery
electrocatalysis
fuel cells
oxygen reduction reaction
porous carbons
single-atom Fe

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Yang, Z., Wang, Y., Zhu, M., Li, Z., Chen, W., Wei, W., Yuan, T., Qu, Y., Xu, Q., Zhao, C., Wang, X., Li, P., Li, Y., Wu, Y., & Li, Y. (2019). Boosting Oxygen Reduction Catalysis with Fe-N ₄ Sites Decorated Porous Carbons toward Fuel Cells ACS Catalysis, 9(3), 2158-2163. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b04381

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