• 文献标题:   Boron and nitrogen co-doped graphene aerogels: Facile preparation, tunable doping contents and bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHEN W, XU L, TIAN YH, LI HA, WANG K
  • 作者关键词:   codoped graphene aerogel, facile, tunable doping content, synergetic effect
  • 出版物名称:   CARBON
  • ISSN:   0008-6223 EI 1873-3891
  • 通讯作者地址:   Jiangsu Univ
  • 被引频次:   16
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.carbon.2018.05.061
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Rational design of low-cost and highly-efficient bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is currently critical for renewable energy storage and conversion devices. Herein, we represent a series of three-dimensional porous B and N co-doped graphene aerogels (BN-GAs) using NH4B5O8 as precursor for B and N source by hydrothermal method and freeze-drying process. In this facile strategy, we can tune doping contents of B and N configurations in BN-GAs by simply changing the synthesis conditions. Linear sweep voltammetry results confirm that the increasing doping contents of pyridinic N and BC3 phases in BN-GAs can boost ORR activity, which may be because the enhanced synergy that arises from combining pyridinic N and BC3 phases can greatly improve ORR activity. The proposed BN-GAs not only show similar ORR activity to commercial Pt/C, but also more superior stability and excellent methanol tolerance than commercial Pt/C. Remarkably, the resultant BN-GAs also exhibit considerable OER activity and achieve desired performance as an air cathode for a rechargeable zinc-air battery device. Notably, this work may assist in a new insight to feasible preparation and molecular design of more advanced graphene-based catalyst, and can be extended to other catalytic system. (c) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.