• 文献标题:   Boron- and Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots/Graphene Hybrid Nanoplatelets as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FEI HL, YE RQ, YE GL, GONG YJ, PENG ZW, FAN XJ, SAMUEL ELG, AJAYAN PM, TOUR JM
  • 作者关键词:   oxygen reduction reaction, electrocatalyst, boron nitrogen doping, graphene quantum dot, coal
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Rice Univ
  • 被引频次:   223
  • DOI:   10.1021/nn504637y
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

The scarcity and high cost of platinum-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has limited the commercial and scalable use of fuel cells. Heteroatom-doped nanocarbon materials have been demonstrated to be efficient alternative catalysts for ORR. Here, graphene quantum dots, synthesized from inexpensive and earth-abundant anthracite coal, were self-assembled on graphene by hydrothermal treatment to form hybrid nanoplatelets that were then codoped with nitrogen and boron by high-temperature annealing. This hybrid material combined the advantages of both components, such as abundant edges and doping sites, high electrical conductivity, and high surface area, which makes the resulting materials excellent oxygen reduction electrocatalysts with activity even higher than that of commercial Pt/C in alkaline media.