Hollow N-doped carbon spheres with anchored single-atom Fe sites for efficient electrocatalytic oxygen reduction
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摘要: 本研究将单原子分散的Fe-N4位点锚定在氮掺杂空心多孔碳球上用于电催化氧还原反应,研究表明,所制备的Fe SAs/HNCSs-800催化剂表现出优异的电催化氧还原性能,其起始电位为0.925 V,半波电位为0.867 V。球差电镜和同步辐射X射线吸收光谱证实了催化剂中存在高度分散的Fe-N4单原子位点。通过密度泛函理论计算证明单原子Fe-N4位点是氧还原反应有效的活性位点,其相邻的C缺陷可以有效调控单原子Fe的电子结构,进而提高电催化氧还原性能。Abstract: We anchored atomically dispersed Fe-N4 sites on hollow N-doped carbon spheres (Fe SAs/HNCSs-800) for electrocatalytic ORR; the obtained material exhibited electrocatalytic activity and stability comparable to that of commercial Pt/C, with an onset potential of 0.925 V and a half-wave potential of 0.867 V. Aberration-corrected high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy results confirmed the presence of highly dispersed Fe single atoms in Fe SAs/HNCSs-800. The results of experiments and theoretical calculations show that the single-atom dispersed Fe-N4 serve as the ORR active sites, and the adjacent C defects can effectively regulate the electronic structure of Fe atoms and improve the electrocatalytic ORR activity.
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Figure 4 (a) LSV curves, (b) Tafel plots, (c) cyclic voltammetry (CV) curves, and (d) kinetic current density (jk) curves of Fe SAs/HNCSs; (e) jk at 0.85 V and E1/2 values; (f) LSV curves before and after 3000-cycle durability test, with the inset showing the i-t curves of Fe SAs/HNCSs-800 and 20% Pt/C
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