Journal
NANO RESEARCH
Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 3082-3089Publisher
TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3966-y
Keywords
fuel cell; oxygen reduction reaction; non-precious metal catalyst; dual atomic site; P/N coordination
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- Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality [Z200012]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21975010]
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By regulating the coordination anions, the stability of NPMCs can be improved, providing a new approach to enhance the stability of dual-atom catalysts.
Non-precious metal catalysts (NPMCs) are promising low-cost alternatives of Pt/C for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), which however suffer from serious stability challenge in the devices of proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells (PEMFC). Different from the traditional strategies of increasing the degree of graphitization of carbon substrates and using less Fenton-reactive metals, we prove here that proper regulation of coordination anions is also an effective way to improve the stability of NPMC. N/P co-coordinated Fe-Co dual-atomic-sites are constructed on ZIF-8 derived carbon support using a molecular precursor of C34H28Cl2CoFeP2 and a precursor-preselected method. A composition of FeCoN5P1 is infered for the dual-atom active site by microscopy and spectroscopy analysis. By comparing with N-coordinated references, we investigate the effect of P-coodination on the ORR catalysis of Fe-Co dual-atom catalysts in PEMFC. The metals in FeCoN5P1 have the lower formation energy than those in the solo N-coordinated active sites of FeCoN6 and FeN4, and exhibits a much better fuel cell stability. This anion approach provides a new way to improve the stability of dual-atom catalysts.
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