scholarly journals Oxygen Reactions: Controlling the Active Sites of Sulfur-Doped Carbon Nanotube-Graphene Nanolobes for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Catalysis (Adv. Energy Mater. 5/2016)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelhamid M. El-Sawy ◽  
Islam M. Mosa ◽  
Dong Su ◽  
Curtis J. Guild ◽  
Syed Khalid ◽  
...  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 1501966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelhamid M. El-Sawy ◽  
Islam M. Mosa ◽  
Dong Su ◽  
Curtis J. Guild ◽  
Syed Khalid ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. e1501122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Bin Yang ◽  
Jianwei Miao ◽  
Sung-Fu Hung ◽  
Jiazang Chen ◽  
Hua Bing Tao ◽  
...  

Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are critical to renewable energy conversion and storage technologies. Heteroatom-doped carbon nanomaterials have been reported to be efficient metal-free electrocatalysts for ORR in fuel cells for energy conversion, as well as ORR and OER in metal-air batteries for energy storage. We reported that metal-free three-dimensional (3D) graphene nanoribbon networks (N-GRW) doped with nitrogen exhibited superb bifunctional electrocatalytic activities for both ORR and OER, with an excellent stability in alkaline electrolytes (for example, KOH). For the first time, it was experimentally demonstrated that the electron-donating quaternary N sites were responsible for ORR, whereas the electron-withdrawing pyridinic N moieties in N-GRW served as active sites for OER. The unique 3D nanoarchitecture provided a high density of the ORR and OER active sites and facilitated the electrolyte and electron transports. As a result, the as-prepared N-GRW holds great potential as a low-cost, highly efficient air cathode in rechargeable metal-air batteries. Rechargeable zinc-air batteries with the N-GRW air electrode in a two-electrode configuration exhibited an open-circuit voltage of 1.46 V, a specific capacity of 873 mAh g−1, and a peak power density of 65 mW cm−2, which could be continuously charged and discharged with an excellent cycling stability. Our work should open up new avenues for the development of various carbon-based metal-free bifunctional electrocatalysts of practical significance.


ChemCatChem ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2870-2878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bezawit Z. Desalegn ◽  
Harsharaj S. Jadhav ◽  
Jeong Gil Seo

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (24) ◽  
pp. 5809-5817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haidong Yang ◽  
Yu Long ◽  
Yan Zhu ◽  
Ziming Zhao ◽  
Ping Ma ◽  
...  

The highly efficient OER performance of the ultrathin cobalt hydroxides nanosheets is due to the elongated Co–OOHbonds generated from crystal lattice distortion, which can serve as the efficiently catalytic active sites.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (47) ◽  
pp. 25268-25274
Author(s):  
Weiwei Yang ◽  
Yu Bai ◽  
Jiahuan Ma ◽  
Zhenhua Wang ◽  
Wang Sun ◽  
...  

The introduction of volatile zinc and LDHs improves the exposure of active sites, thereby enhancing the electrocatalytic performance of the hierarchical structural material toward the oxygen evolution reaction.


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