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Download fileHydrothermal Synthesis of a New Kind of N‑Doped Graphene Gel-like Hybrid As an Enhanced ORR Electrocatalyst
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posted on 2018-03-16, 00:00 authored by Qin Xiang, Yuping Liu, Xuefeng Zou, Bingbing Hu, Yujie Qiang, Danmei Yu, Wei Yin, Changguo ChenIn
this work, g-C3N4@GO gel-like hybrid is obtained
by assembling intentionally exfoliated g-C3N4 sheets on graphene oxide (GO) sheets under a hydrothermal condition.
A specific N-doping process is first designed by heating the g-C3N4@GO interlaced hybrid in vacuum to form nitrogen-doped
graphene nanosheets (NGS) with high level of pyridinic-N (56.0%) and
edge-rich defect structure. The prepared NGS exhibited a great electrocatalysis
for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in terms of the activity, durability,
methanol tolerance, and the reaction kinetics. And the excellent electrocatalytic
performance stems from the effective N-doped sites that the nitrogen
atom is successfully doped at the defective edges of graphene, and
the annealing temperature can play significant role of the doping
pattern and location of N. The research provides a new insight into
the enhancement of electrocatalysis for ORR based on nonmetal carbons
by using the novel N-doping method.
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