• 文献标题:   Ultrathin hexagonal boron nitride as a van der Waals' force initiator activated graphene for engineering efficient non-metal electrocatalysts of Li-CO2 battery
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUN ZM, WANG D, LIN L, LIU YH, YUAN MW, NAN CY, LI HF, SUN GB, YANG XJ
  • 作者关键词:   van der waals heterojunction vdwsh, lico2 battery, boron nitridegraphene oxide vdwsh, nonmetal catalysi
  • 出版物名称:   NANO RESEARCH
  • ISSN:   1998-0124 EI 1998-0000
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  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1007/s12274-021-3620-8 EA JUL 2021
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Reasonably regulating electronic coupling to promote charge transfer and exciton separation has been regarded a promising approach in catalysis. The material engineering of van der Waals heterojunction (vdWsH) based on two-dimensional (2D) materials would be a potential way to optimize the as-prepared extrinsic physicochemical characteristics. However, it was still an almost uncultivated land waiting for exploration in catalysis. Herein, we introduced the inert h-boron nitride (h-BN) in non-metal reduced graphene oxide (GN) catalysts and constructed BN-GN vdWsH. The theoretical calculation demonstrated that the h-BN can effectively modify the electronic properties of graphene. With the introduction of h-BN, the BN-GN vdWsH can obviously enhance the catalytic activity of Li-CO2 battery. The existence of BN-GN vdWsH can reduce the overpotential more than 700 mV compared with reduced graphene oxide during the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) and CO2 evolution reaction (CO2ER), and it extended cyclic stability more than three times, which was one of the most outstanding non-metallic catalysts. The reasonable structure design made it work as a high efficient electrocatalyst, which shed light on the development for functional treatment of catalytic materials.