scispace - formally typeset
PatentDOI

Metal-free bifunctional electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions

Liming Dai
- 04 Apr 2016 - 
- Vol. 10, Iss: 5, pp 444-452
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
A mesoporous carbon foam co-doped with nitrogen and phosphorus that has a large surface area and good electrocatalytic properties for both ORR and OER and is tested as an air electrode for primary and rechargeable Zn-air batteries.
Abstract
A co-doped carbon material, methods of making such materials, and electrochemical cells and devices comprising such materials are provided. The co-doped carbon material comprises a mesoporous carbon material doped with nitrogen and phoshporous (NPMC). The present NPMC exhibit catalytic activity for both oxygen reduction reaction and oxygen evolution reaction and may be useful as an electrode in an electrochemical cell and particularly as part of a battery. The present NPMC materials may be used as electrodes in primary zinc-air batteries and in rechargeable zinc-air batteries and many other energy systems.

read more

Content maybe subject to copyright    Report

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Electronic and Structural Engineering of Carbon-Based Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting.

TL;DR: It is shown that by rationally tuning the electronic and/or physical structure of the carbon nanomaterials, adsorption of reaction intermediates is optimized, consequently improving the apparent electrocatalytic performance.
Journal ArticleDOI

Graphene-Based Nanomaterials for Catalysis

TL;DR: Graphene is considered as one of the most promising materials in a wide range of applications because of its outstanding electronic, optical, thermal, and mechanical properties as mentioned in this paper, and it has been used extensively in catalysis applications.
Journal ArticleDOI

Edge-doping modulation of N, P-codoped porous carbon spheres for high-performance rechargeable Zn-air batteries

TL;DR: In this paper, a facile approach to preparing porous polyaniline spheres in the presence of phytic acid was demonstrated, which led to nitrogen and phosphorous co-doped carbon spheres (NPCSs) with highly porous structure and good bifunctional electrocatalytic activities for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER).
Journal ArticleDOI

Ternary Porous Cobalt Phosphoselenide Nanosheets: An Efficient Electrocatalyst for Electrocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates a novel ternary electrocatalyst of porous cobalt phosphoselenide nanosheets prepared by a combined hydrogenation and phosphation strategy that facilitates a rapid charge transfer and optimal energy barrier of hydrogen desorption, and thus promoting the proton kinetics.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices

TL;DR: The battery systems reviewed here include sodium-sulfur batteries that are commercially available for grid applications, redox-flow batteries that offer low cost, and lithium-ion batteries whose development for commercial electronics and electric vehicles is being applied to grid storage.
Journal ArticleDOI

Origin of the Overpotential for Oxygen Reduction at a Fuel-Cell Cathode

TL;DR: In this paper, the stability of reaction intermediates of electrochemical processes on the basis of electronic structure calculations was analyzed and a detailed description of the free energy landscape of the electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction over Pt(111) as a function of applied bias was presented.
Journal ArticleDOI

Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube arrays with high electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction.

TL;DR: It is reported that vertically aligned nitrogen-containing carbon nanotubes (VA-NCNTs) can act as a metal-free electrode with a much better electrocatalytic activity, long-term operation stability, and tolerance to crossover effect than platinum for oxygen reduction in alkaline fuel cells.
Journal ArticleDOI

Sulfur and Nitrogen Dual-Doped Mesoporous Graphene Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction with Synergistically Enhanced Performance†

TL;DR: In this paper, Mesoporous graphene doped with both N and S atoms (N-S-G) was prepared in one step and studied as an electrochemical catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR).
Related Papers (5)