Chemical vapour deposition of Fe-N-C oxygen reduction catalysts with full utilization of dense Fe-N
Journal
Nature materials
ISSN: 1476-4660
Titre abrégé: Nat Mater
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101155473
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2021
10 2021
Historique:
received:
24
11
2020
accepted:
28
04
2021
pubmed:
12
6
2021
medline:
12
6
2021
entrez:
11
6
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Replacing scarce and expensive platinum (Pt) with metal-nitrogen-carbon (M-N-C) catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in proton exchange membrane fuel cells has largely been impeded by the low oxygen reduction reaction activity of M-N-C due to low active site density and site utilization. Herein, we overcome these limits by implementing chemical vapour deposition to synthesize Fe-N-C by flowing iron chloride vapour over a Zn-N-C substrate at 750 °C, leading to high-temperature trans-metalation of Zn-N
Identifiants
pubmed: 34112977
doi: 10.1038/s41563-021-01030-2
pii: 10.1038/s41563-021-01030-2
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Langues
eng
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IM
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1385-1391Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
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