Citation: Wei-Guang YANG, Zhi-Wei GONG, Yan-Ning CHEN, Ru-Ru CHEN, Dong-Li MENG, Min-Na CAO. Nitrogen Doped Carbon as Efficient Catalyst toward Oxygen Reduction Reaction[J]. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, ;2020, 39(2): 287-293. doi: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254–5861.2011–2446 shu

Nitrogen Doped Carbon as Efficient Catalyst toward Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Wei-Guang YANG ^{a, b} ,
Zhi-Wei GONG ^{a, b} ,
Yan-Ning CHEN ^{a, b} ,
Ru-Ru CHEN ^{a, b} ,
Dong-Li MENG ^b ,
Min-Na CAO ^{a, b,,}

a.
College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
b.
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China

Corresponding author: Min-Na CAO, mncao@fjirsm.ac.cn
Received Date: 6 May 2019
Accepted Date: 22 July 2019

Fund Project: the National Key R & D Program 2017YFA0206800the National Key R & D Program of China 2017YFA0700100the NSFC 21573238the NSFC 21571177the NSFC 21520102001Key Research Program of Frontier Science, CAS QYZDJ-SSW-SLH045"Strategic Priority Research Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences XDB20000000

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A kind of nitrogen-doped carbon (NC) nanomaterials was prepared via calcining the nitrogen-rich organic molecular glycoluril under nitrogen atmosphere. Elemental analysis result indicates the N content of the obtained NC is 13.9 wt.%. Electrochemical measurement demonstrated that the obtained NC catalyst is an efficient ORR electrocatalyst in alkaline electrolyte. The process of ORR is dominated by a four-electron transfer pathway with the most efficient catalytic activity. In addition, the NC catalyst exhibits excellent stability and good resistance to methanol poisoning. After 10000 s of chronoamperometric durability test, the relative current of NC catalyst retained as high as 95%. This work provides a new strategy for the preparation of cost-effective ORR catalysts with high catalytic performance.
- nitrogen-doped carbon,
- oxygen reduction reaction,
- electrochemical catalysis
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