Nitrogen Doped Carbon with Metal as Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

This work reports nitrogen doped carbon as non-noble metal catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The carbon material is prepared by the pyrolysis of ion exchange resin. The morphology and ORR activity of the carbon material is influenced by the catalyst used for the graphitization. The e...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of the Electrochemical Society 2016-01, Vol.163 (13), p.F1373-F1379
Main Authors: Meng, Hui, Ouyang, Wenpeng, Xie, Fangyan, Zhang, Weihong, Chen, Jian, Yuan, Dingshen
Format: Article
Language:English
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This work reports nitrogen doped carbon as non-noble metal catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The carbon material is prepared by the pyrolysis of ion exchange resin. The morphology and ORR activity of the carbon material is influenced by the catalyst used for the graphitization. The effect of acid washing of the pyrolyzed carbon before nitrogen doping is studied. Acid washing is found to be able to remove the impurities/defects of graphitic carbon, which decreases the ORR activity. The nitrogen doped materials show much better ORR activity than undoped one. The ORR activity of the as prepared catalysts is related with metal content and N-O content.
ISSN:0013-4651
1945-7111
DOI:10.1149/2.0851613jes