Enhancement of Mass Transport for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Using Petal-Like Porous Fe-NC Nanosheet.
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ABSTRACT
Nitrogen-coordinated single-atom catalysts (SACs) have emerged as a new frontier for accelerating oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) owing to the optimal atom efficiency and fascinating properties. However, augmenting the full exposure of active sites is a crucial challenge in terms of simultaneously pursuing high metal loading of SACs. Here, petal-like porous carbon nanosheets with densely accessible Fe-N4 moieties (FeNC-D) are constructed by combining the space-confinement of silica and the coordination of diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid. The resulted FeNC-D catalyst possesses an enhanced mesoporosity and a balanced hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity, which can facilitate mass transport and advance the exposure of inaccessible Fe-N4 sites, resulting in efficient utilization of active sites. By virtue of the petal-like porous architecture with maximized active site density, FeNC-D demonstrates superior ORR performance in a broad pH range. Remarkably, when utilized as the air cathode in Zn-air battery (ZAB) and microbial fuel cell (MFC), the FeNC-D-based device displays a large power density (356 mW cm-2 for ZAB and 1041.3 mW m-2 for MFC) and possesses remarkable stability, substantially outperforming the commercial Pt/C catalyst.
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MEDLINE
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Oxígeno
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Fuentes de Energía Bioeléctrica
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En
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Small
Asunto de la revista:
ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA
Año:
2021
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Article
País de afiliación:
China