Citation: Li Shuai, Li Bo, Ma Liang, Yang Jia, Xu Hangxun. A facile template approach for the synthesis of mesoporous Fe₃C/Fe-Ndoped carbon catalysts for efficient and durable oxygen reduction reaction[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2017, 28(11): 2159-2163. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2017.08.029 shu

A facile template approach for the synthesis of mesoporous Fe₃C/Fe-Ndoped carbon catalysts for efficient and durable oxygen reduction reaction

CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

Corresponding author: Xu Hangxun, hxu@ustc.edu.cn; hangxun@gmail.com

Received Date: 21 June 2017
Revised Date: 9 August 2017
Accepted Date: 15 August 2017
Available Online: 24 November 2017

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Facile synthetic approaches toward the development of efficient and durable nonprecious metal catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are very important for commercializing advanced electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and metal-air batteries. Here we report a novel template approach to synthesize mesoporous Fe-N-doped carbon catalysts encapsulated with Fe₃C nanoparticles. In this approach, the layer-structured FeOCl was first used as a template for the synthesis of a threedimensional polypyrrole (PPy) structure. During the removal of the FeOCl template, the Fe³⁺ can be absorbed by PPy and then converted into Fe₃C nanoparticles and Fe-N-C sites during the pyrolyzing process. As a result, the as-prepared catalysts could exhibit superior electrocatalytic ORR performance to the commercial Pt/C catalyst in alkaline solutions. Furthermore, the Zn-air battery assembled using the mesoporous carbon catalyst as the air electrode could surpass the commercial Pt/C catalyst in terms of the power density and energy density.
- Mesoporous carbon,
- Polypyrrole,
- Iron carbide nanoparticles,
- Oxygen reduction reaction,
- Electrocatalysis
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