Synergistic interaction and controllable active sites of nitrogen and sulfur co-doping into mesoporous carbon sphere for high performance oxygen reduction electrocatalysts
- Authors
- Oh, Taeseob; Kim, Myeongjin; Park, Dabin; Kim, Jooheon
- Issue Date
- 15-May-2018
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- Oxygen reduction reaction; Metal-free electrocatalyst; Mesoporous carbon sphere; Nitrogen and sulfur co-doping; Synergistic effect
- Citation
- APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE, v.440, pp 627 - 636
- Pages
- 10
- Journal Title
- APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
- Volume
- 440
- Start Page
- 627
- End Page
- 636
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/2167
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.01.186
- ISSN
- 0169-4332
1873-5584
- Abstract
- Nitrogen and sulfur co-doped mesoporous carbon sphere (NSMCS) was prepared as a metal-free catalyst by an economical and facile pyrolysis process. The mesoporous carbon spheres were derived from sodium carboxymethyl cellulose as the carbon source and the nitrogen and sulfur dopants were derived from urea and p-benzenedithiol, respectively. The doping level and chemical states of nitrogen and sulfur in the prepared NSMCS can be easily adjusted by controlling the pyrolysis temperature. The NSMCS pyrolyzed at 900 degrees C ( NSMCS-900) exhibited higher oxygen reduction reaction activity than the mesoporous carbon sphere doped solely with nitrogen or sulfur, due to the synergistic effect of co-doping. Among all the NSMCS samples, NSMCS-900 exhibited excellent ORR catalytic activity owing to the presence of a highly active site, consisting of pyridinic N, graphitic N, and thiophene S. Remarkably, the NSMCS-900 catalyst was comparable with commercial Pt/C, in terms of the onset and the half-wave potentials and showed better durability than Pt/C for ORR in an alkaline electrolyte. The approach demonstrated in this work could be used to prepare promising metal-free electrocatalysts for application in energy conversion and storage. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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