High-performance oxygen reduction catalysts in both alkaline and acidic fuel cells based on pre-treating carbon material and iron precursor

Ping Song; Heather M Barkholtz; Ying Wang; Weilin Xu; Dijia Liu; Lin Zhuang

doi:10.1016/j.scib.2017.10.020

High-performance oxygen reduction catalysts in both alkaline and acidic fuel cells based on pre-treating carbon material and iron precursor

Sci Bull (Beijing). 2017 Dec 15;62(23):1602-1608. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2017.10.020. Epub 2017 Oct 27.

Authors

Ping Song¹, Heather M Barkholtz², Ying Wang³, Weilin Xu⁴, Dijia Liu⁵, Lin Zhuang⁶

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Chemical Power, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China.
² Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
³ College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Hubei Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Power Sources, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Chemical Power, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China. Electronic address: weilinxu@ciac.ac.cn.
⁵ Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA. Electronic address: djliu@anl.gov.
⁶ College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Hubei Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Power Sources, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China. Electronic address: lzhuang@whu.edu.cn.

PMID: 36659478
DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2017.10.020

Abstract

We demonstrate a new and simple method for pre-treating the carbon material and iron precursor to prepare oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts, which can produce super-high performance and stability in alkaline solution, with high performance in acid solution. This strategy using cheap materials is simply controllable. Moreover, it has achieved smaller uniform nanoparticles to exhibit high stability, and the synergetic effect of Fe and N offered much higher performance in ORR than commercial Pt/C, with high maximum power density in alkaline and acid fuel cell test. So it can make this kind of catalysts be the most promising alternatives of Pt-based catalysts with best performance/price.

Keywords: Fuel cell; High stability; Pre-treatment; Super-high performance; Uniform nanoparticle.