Efficient electrocatalytic O2 reduction at copper complexes grafted onto polyvinylimidazole coated carbon nanotubes

Fei-Fei Wang; Ye-Min Zhao; Ping-Jie Wei; Qian-Ling Zhang; Jin-Gang Liu

doi:10.1039/c6cc08552k

Efficient electrocatalytic O₂ reduction at copper complexes grafted onto polyvinylimidazole coated carbon nanotubes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Jan 26;53(9):1514-1517. doi: 10.1039/c6cc08552k.

Authors

Fei-Fei Wang¹, Ye-Min Zhao¹, Ping-Jie Wei¹, Qian-Ling Zhang², Jin-Gang Liu¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials of MOE, School of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, P. R. China. liujingang@ecust.edu.cn.
² Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China.

PMID: 28085159
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc08552k

Abstract

A facile approach to prepare Cu complexes for an efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) was developed. Copper complexes of 5-nitrophenanthroline were sandwiched between polyvinylimidazole layers wrapped on carbon nanotubes, which showed ORR activity comparable to a Pt/C catalyst in alkaline media.