Converting chicken manure into highly active N–P co-doped metal-free biocarbon electrocatalysts: effect of chemical treatment on their catalytic activity for the ORR

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 1307-1316 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. L. Alonso-Lemus ◽  
M. Z. Figueroa-Torres ◽  
D. Lardizabal-Gutíerrez ◽  
P. Bartolo-Pérez ◽  
J. C. Carrillo-Rodríguez ◽  
...  

In this work, the use of chicken manure as the raw material for obtaining metal-free biocarbons as electrocatalysts was studied.

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
pp. 5906-5914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongxi Zan ◽  
Zhengping Zhang ◽  
Meiling Dou ◽  
Feng Wang

A sulfur, nitrogen and phosphorus ternary-doped cattle-bone-derived hierarchically porous carbon metal-free electrocatalyst was synthesized, exhibiting superior oxygen reduction performance compared to Pt/C.


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.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (36) ◽  
pp. 18456-18465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Hong Kim ◽  
Aravindaraj G. Kannan ◽  
Hyun-Sik Woo ◽  
Dae-Gun Jin ◽  
Wonkeun Kim ◽  
...  

Nitrogen and sulfur co-doped graphene/mesoporous carbon exhibited high bi-functional catalytic activity toward oxygen reduction and evolution reactions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 2718-2725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Yang ◽  
Yan Cao ◽  
Zhuo Chen ◽  
Xing He ◽  
Liqiang Hou ◽  
...  

Boron and nitrogen co-doped graphene-like carbon catalysts were fabricated by mechanochemistry and demonstrated outstanding catalytic activity for the reduction of nitroarenes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 3501-3509
Author(s):  
Sung-Woo Park ◽  
Hyun Jung Shin ◽  
Dong-Wan Kim

A Co(OH)2 anchored on S,N co-doped rGO as a highly active and stable bifunctional oxygen catalyst was developed via an efficient strategy and its catalytic activity was comparable to that of the benchmarked noble metal-based oxygen catalysts.


1979 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Zuckmantel ◽  
R. Kurth ◽  
H. P. Boehm

Abstract Conductometric measurements of the catalytic oxydation of dilute aqueous sulfurous acid were used in the comparison of various carbon catalysts, e.g. active charcoals and carbon blacks. The oxidation rate is proportional to (Po2) 1/2 and to the amount of adsorbed HSO3- ions. Basic surface oxides are responsible for the HSO3 -adsorption. The catalytic activity of a carbon is influenced also by other factors than the concentration of basic surface oxides. It is changed by heat treatment of the carbon as well as by chemical treatment of its surface. Treatment with ammonia at 600 °C increases its activity dramatically, absolutely inactive carbon blacks were rendered highly active.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (23) ◽  
pp. 7370
Author(s):  
Mohamed Cherif ◽  
Jean-Pol Dodelet ◽  
Gaixia Zhang ◽  
Vassili P. Glibin ◽  
Shuhui Sun ◽  
...  

Fluorination is considered as a means of reducing the degradation of Fe/N/C, a highly active FeNx-doped disorganized carbon catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in PEM fuel cells. Our recent experiments have, however, revealed that fluorination poisons the FeNx moiety of the Fe/N/C catalytic site, considerably reducing the activity of the resulting catalyst to that of carbon only doped with nitrogen. Using the density functional theory (DFT), we clarify in this work the mechanisms by which fluorine interacts with the catalyst. We studied 10 possible FeNx site configurations as well as 2 metal-free sites in the absence or presence of fluorine molecules and atoms. When the FeNx moiety is located on a single graphene layer accessible on both sides, we found that fluorine binds strongly to Fe but that two F atoms, one on each side of the FeNx plane, are necessary to completely inhibit the catalytic activity of the FeNx sites. When considering the more realistic model of a stack of graphene layers, only one F atom is needed to poison the FeNx moiety on the top layer since ORR hardly takes place between carbon layers. We also found that metal-free catalytic N-sites are immune to poisoning by fluorination, in accordance with our experiments. Finally, we explain how most of the catalytic activity can be recovered by heating to 900 °C after fluorination. This research helps to clarify the role of metallic sites compared to non-metallic ones upon the fluorination of FeNx-doped disorganized carbon catalysts.


Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (46) ◽  
pp. 21764-21771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sijie Liu ◽  
Liting Cui ◽  
Zhiyao Peng ◽  
Jingjing Wang ◽  
Yajing Hu ◽  
...  

N,S co-doped hierarchical nanocarbon derived from an azo-sulphonate dye pollutant demonstrates superior catalytic activity for the reduction of nitroarenes.


2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 8823-8828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Nabid ◽  
Yasamin Bide ◽  
Nazanin Fereidouni

The high catalytic activity of B,N co-doped CDs is due to the synergistic effect of nitrogen and boron dopants and the intrinsic properties of carbon dots.


1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (12) ◽  
pp. 2751-2759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jindřich Poláček ◽  
Helena Antropiusová ◽  
Lidmila Petrusová ◽  
Karel Mach

The C6H6.Ti(II)(AlBr4)2 (Ib) catalyst deactivates during the butadiene cyclotrimerization to give a solid containing all titanium (mostly as TiBr3) and a mixture of AlBr3 and RAlBr2 compounds dissolved in benzene. The residual cationic catalytic activity of the deactivated Ib system is due to presence of AlBr3. In contrast to TiCl3, the deactivated Ib system and the model system TiBr3 + AlBr3 are not activated by the addition of EtAlCl2 in the presence of butadiene: the highly active benzenetitanium(II) system is re-constituted only after reduction of TiBr3 with Et3Al followed by the addition of EtAlCl2. The addition of Et2AlBr to Ib accelerates the deactivation of the system. Deactivation products of this system contain mainly Ti(II) species which forms benzenetitanium(II) catalytic system after addition of EtAlCl2. All the EtAlCl2 reactivated systems produce (Z, E, E)-1,5,9-cyclododecatriene with high catalytic stability and considerable selectivity (>90%). This behaviour points to the catalysis by benzenetitanium(II) chloroalane complexes containing only low amount of bromine atoms and ethyl groups.


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