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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
卷 117, 期 37, 页码 18837-18844出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp405247m
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- New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
Tantalum-oxide-based oxygen-reduction-reaction (ORR) catalysts have the ORR activity only when they are synthesized from tantalum carbonitrides. Namely pure Ta2O5 does not show ORR activity, and carbon or nitrogen in precursors is inevitable to form ORR active sites and to promote ORR. To clarify this reason, we investigated structural and surface electronic properties of tantalum-oxide-based catalysts, which were synthesized by gradually oxidizing tantalum carbonitride under low partial pressure of oxygen at 1000 degrees C, by using X-ray absorption spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and Raman spectroscopy. The results indicate that oxidized tantalum carbonitrides with high ORR activity had oxygen vacancies near the surface, indicating that the vacancies could work as an active site for ORB.. We also found that carbon was deposited on the oxide's surface during oxidation of tantalum carbonitrides. The deposited carbon seems to play two important roles in formation of oxygen vacancies (ORR active sites) providing reductive atmosphere, and in producing electron conduction paths on rather insulating oxides' surface.
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