• 文献标题:   Assembly of Hollow Carbon Nanospheres on Graphene Nanosheets and Creation of Iron-Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon for Oxygen Reduction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TAN HB, TANG J, HENZIE J, LI YQ, XU XT, CHEN T, WANG ZL, WANG JY, IDE Y, BANDO Y, YAMAUCHI Y
  • 作者关键词:   monomicelle assembly, twodimensional architecture, sandwichlike composite, iron nitrogendoped carbon, oxygen reduction
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   NIMS
  • 被引频次:   50
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.8b01502
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Triblock copolymer micelles coated with melamine-formaldehyde resin were self-assembled into closely packed two-dimensional (2D) arrangements on the surface of graphene oxide sheets. Carbonizing these structures created a 2D architecture composed of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) sandwiched between two monolayers of sub-40 nm diameter hollow nitrogen-doped carbon nano spheres (N-HCNS). Electrochemical tests showed that these hybrid structures had better performance for oxygen reduction compared to physically mixed rGO and N-HCNS that were not chemically bonded together. Further impregnation of the sandwich structures with iron (Fe) species followed by carbonization yielded Fe/(1.6)-N-HCNS/rGO-900 with a high specific surface area (968.3 m(2) g(-1)), a high nitrogen doping (6.5 at%), and uniformly distributed Fe dopant (1.6 wt %). X-ray absorption fine structure analyses showed that most of the Fe in the nitrogen doped carbon framework is composed of single Fe atoms each coordinated to four N atoms. The best Fe-1.6-N-HCNS/rGO-900 catalyst performed better in electrocatalytic oxygen reduction than 20 wt % Pt/C catalyst in alkaline medium, with a more positive half-wave potential of 0.872 V and the same limiting current density. Bottom-up soft-patterning of regular carbon arrays on free-standing 2D surfaces should enable conductive carbon supports that boost the performance of electrocatalytic active sites.