dc.contributor.author | Xu, Pan | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Jing | |
dc.contributor.author | Jiang, Gaopeng | |
dc.contributor.author | Hassan, Fathy Mohamed | |
dc.contributor.author | Choi, Ja-Yeon | |
dc.contributor.author | Fu, Xiaogang | |
dc.contributor.author | Zamani, Pouyan | |
dc.contributor.author | Yang, Lijun | |
dc.contributor.author | Banham, Dustin | |
dc.contributor.author | Ye, Siyu | |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, Zhongwei | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-31 13:49:52 (GMT) | |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-31 13:49:52 (GMT) | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-09 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2211-2855 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.07.031 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13500 | |
dc.description | The final publication is available at Elsevier via https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.07.031. © 2018. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en |
dc.description.abstract | Transition metals hybridized to heteroatom doped carbon material can be regarded as the most promising non-noble candidate for boosting the sluggish kinetics of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, it has always been a challenge to vastly boost the activity, and simultaneously retain a favorable structure from the supporting material. Herein, we prepared a high surface area hollow spherical carbon as a supporting material, and employed aminothiophenol (ATI) and poly-aminothiophenol (PATI) as heteroatom precursors to synthesize nitrogen and sulfur co-doped catalysts, i.e. HCS-A and HCS-PA, respectively. The two catalysts possessed chemically similar surface composition, and nearly identical chemical states for each element. However, only HCS-A was able to vastly inherit both morphological advantage and high surface area from the carbon support. In further half-cell electrochemical testing, HCS-A performed better ORR activities and higher selectivity toward 4 electron pathway than HCS-PA in both acidic and alkaline media. Moreover, HCS-A was proven to have excellent durability in half-cell testing, methanol tolerance as well as outstanding peak power density in both fuel cells and zinc-air batteries. This work not only indicates the promising performances of HCS-A, but more importantly offers a new viewpoint on the selection of heteroatom precursor to retain a favorable structure. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Waterloo | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Ballard Power Systems | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Catalysis Research for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (CaRPE-FC), Simon Fraser University | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council || Automotive Partnership Canada Grant no. APCPJ 417858-11 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | hollow sphere | en |
dc.subject | oxygen reduction | en |
dc.subject | non-precious catalyst | en |
dc.subject | electron transfer number | en |
dc.subject | PEM fuel cell | en |
dc.subject | zinc-air battery | en |
dc.title | Embellished hollow spherical catalyst boosting activity and durability for oxygen reduction reaction | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Xu, P., Zhang, J., Jiang, G., Hassan, F., Choi, J.-Y., Fu, X., … Chen, Z. (2018). Embellished hollow spherical catalyst boosting activity and durability for oxygen reduction reaction. Nano Energy, 51, 745–753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.07.031 | en |
uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Engineering | en |
uws.contributor.affiliation2 | Chemical Engineering | en |
uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |
uws.peerReviewStatus | Reviewed | en |
uws.scholarLevel | Faculty | en |
uws.scholarLevel | Post-Doctorate | en |
uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |