Binary Fe, Cu-doped bamboo-like carbon nanotubes as efficient catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction
Nano Energy(2017)
摘要
In this work, CuCl2 as a promoter was added into the mixture of polythiophene (PTh), FeCl3, and melamine for preparing Fe-Cu-N/C catalyst. The catalyst features one-dimensional bamboo-like carbon nanotubes with few metal oxide nanoparticles encapsulated into tubes. The catalyst exhibits excellent activity toward the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) with half-wave potential 50mV more positive than the commercial Pt/C in 0.1M KOH. It also shows comparable ORR activity in 0.1M HClO4 solution. Moreover, it exhibits superior long-term stability and excellent methanol tolerance in both alkaline and acidic solutions. The outstanding catalytic performance of Fe-Cu-N/C catalyst can be ascribed to the doping of Cu in the Fe-N-C architecture, which promotes the formation of bamboo-like nanotube structure and the generation of interaction among Cu and Fe-N-C. This synthetic strategy may open new avenues for constructing highly efficient electrocatalysts that adding of an inactive metal can obviously promote the catalytic performance of catalysts.
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Binary doping,Copper,Carbon nanotube,Electrocatalyst,Oxygen reduction reaction
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