• 文献标题:   Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis Using N-Doped Graphene Quantum-Dots
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SAIDI WA
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1948-7185
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Pittsburgh
  • 被引频次:   85
  • DOI:   10.1021/jz402090d
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

First-principles investigations of the electrocatalytic activity toward the four-electron oxygen reduction-reaction in N-doped graphene quantum dots reveal that pyridinic and graphitic nitrogen are the most active sites with overpotentials of 0.55 and 0.79-0.90 V, respectively. This agrees with experimental findings. Our calculations account for van der Waals interactions, solvent effects, and describe the electrochemistry using standard hydrogen electrode model. The results show correlations between OH*, OOH*, and O* binding energies that impose a lower limit on the oxygen reduction overpotential.