Recent Progress in Precious Metal‐Free Carbon‐Based Materials towards the Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Activity, Stability, and Anti‐Poisoning

Author(s):  
Ling Zhang ◽  
Li Li ◽  
Hongmei Chen ◽  
Zidong Wei
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (49) ◽  
pp. 54815-54823
Author(s):  
Javier Quílez-Bermejo ◽  
Karol Strutyński ◽  
Manuel Melle-Franco ◽  
Emilia Morallón ◽  
Diego Cazorla-Amorós

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. e1400129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianglan Shui ◽  
Min Wang ◽  
Feng Du ◽  
Liming Dai

The availability of low-cost, efficient, and durable catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a prerequisite for commercialization of the fuel cell technology. Along with intensive research efforts of more than half a century in developing nonprecious metal catalysts (NPMCs) to replace the expensive and scarce platinum-based catalysts, a new class of carbon-based, low-cost, metal-free ORR catalysts was demonstrated to show superior ORR performance to commercial platinum catalysts, particularly in alkaline electrolytes. However, their large-scale practical application in more popular acidic polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells remained elusive because they are often found to be less effective in acidic electrolytes, and no attempt has been made for a single PEM cell test. We demonstrated that rationally designed, metal-free, nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes and their graphene composites exhibited significantly better long-term operational stabilities and comparable gravimetric power densities with respect to the best NPMC in acidic PEM cells. This work represents a major breakthrough in removing the bottlenecks to translate low-cost, metal-free, carbon-based ORR catalysts to commercial reality, and opens avenues for clean energy generation from affordable and durable fuel cells.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 2985-2991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunjie Zhou ◽  
Yue Sun ◽  
Huibo Wang ◽  
Cheng Zhu ◽  
Jin Gao ◽  
...  

A N, B co-doped carbon material exhibits excellent catalytic activity for an oxygen reduction reaction.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (29) ◽  
pp. 11156-11178 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Retna Raj ◽  
Arpan Samanta ◽  
Seung Hyo Noh ◽  
Siniya Mondal ◽  
Takeyoshi Okajima ◽  
...  

Recent progress in the development of a new class of inexpensive metal-free and non-noble metal-based electrocatalysts for the cathodic reduction of oxygen is discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1700515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Ren ◽  
Hui Wang ◽  
Xue-Feng Lu ◽  
Ye-Xiang Tong ◽  
Gao-Ren Li

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