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Minimizing liquid/solid interfacial energy boosts Fe-N doping inside hollow carbon sphere for oxygen reduction in membrane-less direct formate fuel cell
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Porous hollow carbon sphere (HCS) is an attractive catalyst support for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) due to its large specific surface area for active site anchoring, porous and hollow structure for active site exposure and mass transfer. However, due to the high transfer resistance for exogenous heteroatoms into HCS, most of active sites are usually loaded on the outer surface of HCS, leading to the decrease of active site density and the aggregation of heteroatomic particles. In this work, we proposed that accompanied with the decrease of liquid/ solid interfacial energy by changing solvent composition during impregnation, penetration of exogenous heteroatoms-containing solution was facilitated in HCS, resulting in increased density of uniformly-dispersed Fe-N-x active site by 58 %. Taking advantage of high-content and well-dispersed active site, structure-derived porosity for ion transfer and active site exposure, this HCS-derived catalyst (Fe-HCS@C2H5OH) exhibited positive onset and half-wave potentials of 0.953 V and 0.901 V (vs. RHE), as well as high power density of 20.17 f 0.31 mW cm(- 2) when applied in membrane-less direct formate fuel cell cathode, surpassing those of commercial Pt/C and the state-of-the-art carbonaceous catalysts. This strategy of interfacial energy control provides a new stepping-stone for the synthesis of high-performance electrocatalysts.
Keywords:
Interfacial energy
Fe-N doping
Mesoporous hollow carbon sphere
Oxygen reduction reaction
Membrane-less direct formate fuel cell
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