期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 11, 期 47, 页码 44186-44195出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b14770
关键词
nitrogen reduction reaction; ambient electrosynthesis of NH3; NHx; species; Au@C; laser ablation in liquid (LAL)
资金
- Natural Science Foundation of China [51872292, 51571186]
- CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
This work reports the synthesis of core-shell structured Au@C composite through a simple one-step laser ablation technique. The results demonstrate that the Au@C with a mean nanosphere size of similar to 80 nm is composed of a spherical shaped Au core and 1-2 layered graphitic carbon shell with abundant defects. As a nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) electrocatalyst, the Au@C gives a large NH3 yield rate of 241.9 mu g mg(cat)(-1) with a high faradaic efficiency of 40.5% at-0.45 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode in a 0.1 M Na2SO4 electrolyte (pH = 6.3) under ambient conditions, surpassing the performances of most aqueous-based NRR electrocatalysts recently reported. The IN labeling experimental results demonstrate that the produced NH3 is undoubtedly originated from the NRR process catalyzed by AupC. The superior NRR performance of AupC can be ascribed to the ultrathin carbon layer, effectively inhibiting the aggregation of Au nanospheres during the NRR, and the abundant defects such as carbon vacancies existed in the ultrathin carbon layer, providing additional NRR catalytic active sites. Our theoretical calculation results further confirm the role of carbon vacancies in the electrocatalytic NRR.
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