Nanostructured Nonprecious Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

催化作用 电催化剂 碳纤维 石墨烯 掺杂剂 铂金 过渡金属 电化学 材料科学 纳米结构 纳米技术 无机化学 电化学能量转换 化学 化学工程 兴奋剂 电极 有机化学 复合数 物理化学 光电子学 复合材料 工程类
作者
Gang Wu,Piotr Zelenay
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期刊:Accounts of Chemical Research [American Chemical Society]
卷期号:46 (8): 1878-1889 被引量:1015
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DOI:10.1021/ar400011z
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Platinum-based catalysts represent a state of the art in the electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) from the point of view of their activity and durability in harnessing the chemical energy via direct electrochemical conversion. However, because platinum is both expensive and scarce, its widespread implementation in such clean energy applications is limited. Recent breakthroughs in the synthesis of high-performance nonprecious metal catalysts (NPMCs) make replacement of Pt in ORR electrocatalysts with earth-abundant elements, such as Fe, Co, N, and C, a realistic possibility. In this Account, we discuss how we can obtain highly promising M-N-C (M: Fe and/or Co) catalysts by simultaneously heat-treating precursors of nitrogen, carbon, and transition metals at 800-1000 °C. The activity and durability of resulting catalysts depend greatly on the selection of precursors and synthesis chemistry. In addition, they correlate quite well with the catalyst nanostructure. While chemists have presented no conclusive description of the active catalytic site for this class of NPMCs, they have developed a designed approach to making active and durable materials, focusing on the catalyst nanostructure. The approach consists of nitrogen doping, in situ carbon graphitization, and the usage of graphitic structures (possibly graphene and graphene oxides) as carbon precursors. Various forms of nitrogen, particularly pyridinic and quaternary, can act as n-type carbon dopants in the M-N-C catalysts, assisting in the formation of disordered carbon nanostructures and donating electrons to the carbon. The CNx structures are likely a crucial part of the ORR active site(s). Noteworthy, the ORR activity is not necessarily governed by the amount of nitrogen, but by how the nitrogen is incorporated into the nanostructures. Apart from the possibility of a direct participation in the active site, the transition metal often plays an important role in the in situ formation of various carbon nanostructures by catalyzing the decomposition of the nitrogen/carbon precursor. We can control the formation of different nanostructures during the synthesis of M-N-C catalysts. For example, in situ formed nitrogen-doped graphene-sheets can only be derived from polyaniline (PANI), probably due to structural similarities between the aromatic structures of PANI and graphene. Highly-graphitized carbon nanostructures may serve as a matrix for the formation of ORR-active groups with improved catalytic activity and durability, containing nitrogen and most probably also metal atoms. In the future, we will likely focus NPMC synthesis approaches on precise control of interactions between precursors of the metal and carbon/nitrogen during the heat treatment. The main purposes will be to maximize the number of active sites, optimize nitrogen doping levels, and generate morphologies capable of hosting active and stable ORR sites.
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