• 文献标题:   Edge-Rich Graphene Nanospheres with Ultra-High Nitrogen Loading Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for Boosted Oxygen Reduction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HAN YJ, SHEN YQ, SONG YH, ZHANG HX, LIU PZ, GUO JJ
  • 作者关键词:   electrocatalyst, graphene nanosphere, graphitic carbon nitride, metalfree catalyst, orr
  • 出版物名称:   CHEMELECTROCHEM
  • ISSN:   2196-0216
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1002/celc.202200311 EA JUN 2022
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Nitrogen (N) doping in graphene-based materials has been demonstrated as an effective strategy in constructing active sites of metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The practical applications of metal-free electrocatalysts in metal-air batteries or fuel cells, nevertheless, have been hampered by their unsatisfactory catalytic performance due to insufficient catalytic active sites. In this work, a novel N-rich graphene nanospheres (NGNs) have been achieved by adopting an edge engineering strategy through annealing the mixture of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) and edge-rich graphene nanospheres (GNs) composed of graphene nanoflakes. Benefiting from the exposure of edge defects in the GNs, the N loading surprisingly achieved as high as 14.01 at%. The half-wave potential and limiting current density of the synthesized NGNs-900 catalyst can reach 0.872 V and 4.25 mA cm(-2), respectively, which are superior to that of the commercial Pt/C. Based on the experimental and theoretical results, the synergistic effect of graphitic-N and pyridinic-N in NGNs catalysts has been distinguished as the origin of the boosted ORR performance. This work proposes a facile synthesis strategy to optimize the N-doped carbon-based catalysts for ORR, which have great potential to replace noble-metal catalysts.