Manipulating the electronic configuration of Fe-N sites by an electron-withdrawing/donating strategy with improved oxygen electroreduction performance
Materials Chemistry Frontiers, ISSN: 2052-1537, Vol: 6, Issue: 9, Page: 1209-1217
2022
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Article Description
Fe-N sites anchored on carbon (Fe-N-C) materials have drawn increasing interest on account of their remarkable electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Nevertheless, the Fe-N sites with a symmetric electronic configuration exhibit too strong binding energy between the Fe center and oxygen intermediates toward the ORR. Herein, we report a facile boron induced electron-withdrawing/donating strategy for manipulating the electronic configuration of Fe-N sites, and constructed Fe single-atoms anchored on B and N co-doped carbon (Fe-SA/BNC). Compared to the Fe single-atoms anchored on the N doped carbon (Fe-SA/NC) counterpart, the adjacent boron atoms induce more electrons to accumulate at Fe-N sites and optimize the absorption/desorption of oxygen intermediates in Fe-SA/BNC. Besides, Fe-SA/BNC features a large specific surface area, hierarchical porous architecture and low electrochemical impedance, which contribute to fast charge/mass transport. Thus, Fe-SA/BNC displays exceptional ORR activity with a half-wave potential of 0.910 V, surpassing those of Fe-SA/NC (0.889 V) and Pt/C (0.870 V). Furthermore, liquid and flexible solid-state Zn-air batteries equipped with Fe-SA/BNC achieve a high peak power density of 308.3 and 62.9 mW cm, respectively. This work not only offers an effective strategy to modify the electronic structure of Fe-N sites with improved ORR activity, but also paves the way for preparing high-performance single-atom catalysts.
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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