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Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H(2)O(2)

Electrochemical 2‐electron oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a promising route for renewable and on‐site H(2)O(2) production. Oxygen‐rich carbon nanotubes have been demonstrated their high selectivity (≈80%), yet tailoring the composition and structure of carbon nanotubes to further enhance the sel...

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Autores principales: Xu, Shuhui, Lu, Ruihu, Sun, Kai, Tang, Jialun, Cen, Yaping, Luo, Liang, Wang, Ziyun, Tian, Shubo, Sun, Xiaoming
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9507382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35901499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202201421
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author Xu, Shuhui
Lu, Ruihu
Sun, Kai
Tang, Jialun
Cen, Yaping
Luo, Liang
Wang, Ziyun
Tian, Shubo
Sun, Xiaoming
author_facet Xu, Shuhui
Lu, Ruihu
Sun, Kai
Tang, Jialun
Cen, Yaping
Luo, Liang
Wang, Ziyun
Tian, Shubo
Sun, Xiaoming
author_sort Xu, Shuhui
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description Electrochemical 2‐electron oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a promising route for renewable and on‐site H(2)O(2) production. Oxygen‐rich carbon nanotubes have been demonstrated their high selectivity (≈80%), yet tailoring the composition and structure of carbon nanotubes to further enhance the selectivity and widen working voltage range remains a challenge. Herein, combining formamide condensation coating and mild temperature calcination, a nitrogen and oxygen comodified carbon nanotubes (N,O‐CNTs) electrocatalyst is synthesized, which shows excellent selective (>95%) H(2)O(2) selectivity in a wide voltage range (from 0 to 0.65 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode). It is significantly superior to the corresponding selectivity values of CNTs (≈50% in 0–0.65 V vs RHE) and O‐CNTs (≈80% in 0.3–0.65 V vs RHE). Density functional theory calculations revealed that the C neighbouring to N is the active site. Introducing O‐related species can strengthen the adsorption of intermediates *OOH, while N‐doping can weaken the adsorption of in situ generated *O and optimize the *OOH adsorption energy, thus improving the 2‐electron pathway. With optimized N,O‐CNTs catalysts, a Janus electrode is designed by adjusting the asymmetric wettability to achieve H(2)O(2) productivity of 264.8 mol kg(cat) (–1) h(–1).
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spelling pubmed-95073822022-09-30 Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H(2)O(2) Xu, Shuhui Lu, Ruihu Sun, Kai Tang, Jialun Cen, Yaping Luo, Liang Wang, Ziyun Tian, Shubo Sun, Xiaoming Adv Sci (Weinh) Research Articles Electrochemical 2‐electron oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a promising route for renewable and on‐site H(2)O(2) production. Oxygen‐rich carbon nanotubes have been demonstrated their high selectivity (≈80%), yet tailoring the composition and structure of carbon nanotubes to further enhance the selectivity and widen working voltage range remains a challenge. Herein, combining formamide condensation coating and mild temperature calcination, a nitrogen and oxygen comodified carbon nanotubes (N,O‐CNTs) electrocatalyst is synthesized, which shows excellent selective (>95%) H(2)O(2) selectivity in a wide voltage range (from 0 to 0.65 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode). It is significantly superior to the corresponding selectivity values of CNTs (≈50% in 0–0.65 V vs RHE) and O‐CNTs (≈80% in 0.3–0.65 V vs RHE). Density functional theory calculations revealed that the C neighbouring to N is the active site. Introducing O‐related species can strengthen the adsorption of intermediates *OOH, while N‐doping can weaken the adsorption of in situ generated *O and optimize the *OOH adsorption energy, thus improving the 2‐electron pathway. With optimized N,O‐CNTs catalysts, a Janus electrode is designed by adjusting the asymmetric wettability to achieve H(2)O(2) productivity of 264.8 mol kg(cat) (–1) h(–1). John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9507382/ /pubmed/35901499 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202201421 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley‐VCH GmbH https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Articles
Xu, Shuhui
Lu, Ruihu
Sun, Kai
Tang, Jialun
Cen, Yaping
Luo, Liang
Wang, Ziyun
Tian, Shubo
Sun, Xiaoming
Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H(2)O(2)
title Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H(2)O(2)
title_full Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H(2)O(2)
title_fullStr Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H(2)O(2)
title_full_unstemmed Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H(2)O(2)
title_short Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H(2)O(2)
title_sort synergistic effects in n,o‐comodified carbon nanotubes boost highly selective electrochemical oxygen reduction to h(2)o(2)
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9507382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35901499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202201421
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