Flexible electrocatalysts: interfacial-assembly of iron nanoparticles for nitrate reduction

Li Su; Fangzhou Zhang; Lianjun Wang; Xiaosheng Fang; Wan Jiang; Jianping Yang

doi:10.1039/d1cc02129j

Flexible electrocatalysts: interfacial-assembly of iron nanoparticles for nitrate reduction

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Jul 14;57(55):6740-6743. doi: 10.1039/d1cc02129j. Epub 2021 Jun 15.

Authors

Li Su¹, Fangzhou Zhang², Lianjun Wang², Xiaosheng Fang³, Wan Jiang², Jianping Yang²

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China. jianpingyang@dhu.edu.cn and Department of Materials Science, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
² State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China. jianpingyang@dhu.edu.cn.
³ Department of Materials Science, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.

PMID: 34132261
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc02129j

Abstract

We report a novel template-assisted epitaxial assembly strategy to assemble carbon-coated iron nanoparticles on a functionalized carbon cloth (CC/Fe@C). This delicate assembled architecture provides a useful guideline for designing flexible iron-based electrocatalysts.