1. Rational design of Fe, N co-doped porous carbon derived from conjugated microporous polymer as an electrocatalytic platform for oxygen reduction reaction.
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Sun, Hanxue, Wang, Juanjuan, Li, Mengxue, Jiao, Rui, Zhu, Zhaoqi, and Li, An
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CONJUGATED polymers , *OXYGEN reduction , *HETEROGENEOUS catalysis , *DOPING agents (Chemistry) , *MONOMERS , *HETEROGENEOUS catalysts , *COORDINATION polymers , *NITROGEN , *IRON - Abstract
Novel Fe N C electrocatalysts derived from conjugated microporous polymers based on pre-functionalization of monomers was developed, which exhibits great potential for cathodic oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cell and provides a feasible strategy of developing multi-atoms doping catalysts for heterogeneous catalysis. [Display omitted] Porous iron–nitrogen-doped carbons (Fe N C) offer a great platform for construction of cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts in fuel cells. However, challenges still remain regarding with the collapse of carbon-skeleton during pyrolysis, uneven distribution of active sites and aggregation of metal atoms. In this work, we synthesized Fe, N co-doped conjugated microporous polymer (FeN-CMP) through a facile bottom-up strategy using 1,3,5-triethynylbenzene and iron-chelated 3,8-dibromo-1,10-phenanthroline as monomers, ensuring the uniform coordination of N with Fe element in network. Then, the resulting FeN-CMP was treated by pyrolysis without structural collapse to obtain porous Fe N C electrocatalyst for ORR. The most active catalyst was fabricated under 900 °C, which exhibits remarkable ORR activity in alkaline medium with half-wave potential of 0.796 V (18 mV and 105 mV positive deviation from the commercial Pt/C catalyst and post-doping catalyst), high selectivity with nearly 4e- transfer process and excellent methanol tolerance. Our study first developed porous Fe N C electrocatalysts derived from Fe, N -anchoring CMPs based on pre-functionalization of monomers, which exhibits great potential as an alternative to commercial Pt/C catalyst for ORR, and provides a feasible strategy of developing multi-atoms doping catalysts for energy storage and conversion as well as heterogeneous catalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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