Citation: Jin Ma, Bin Liu, Rongyue Wang, Zhiyao Sun, Ying Zhang, Yubo Sun, Zhuang Cai, Yao Li, Jinlong Zou. Single-Cu-atoms anchored on 3D macro-porous carbon matrix as efficient catalyst for oxygen reduction and Pt co-catalyst for methanol oxidation[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2022, 33(5): 2585-2589. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.09.108 shu

Single-Cu-atoms anchored on 3D macro-porous carbon matrix as efficient catalyst for oxygen reduction and Pt co-catalyst for methanol oxidation

Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China

zhiyao202@126.com

hlju_chem218c@163.com

zoujinlong@hlju.edu.cn

Received Date: 7 August 2021
Revised Date: 26 August 2021
Accepted Date: 16 September 2021
Available Online: 14 October 2021

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Single metal atoms immobilized on a carbon substrate are of great potential for enhancing the catalytic activities for oxygen reduction and methanol oxidation reactions (ORR/MOR) owing to the maximized atom utilization. Herein, single copper atoms (SCAs) are loaded on macro-porous nitrogen-doped carbon (Cu-NC) derived from zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8), which are used as catalysts for ORR and Pt-supports for MOR. For ORR, the catalyst marked as Cu-NC-3 exhibits a higher peak potential of 0.87 V (vs. Reversible hydrogen electrode) than that of commercial Pt/C (0.83 V), mainly attributing to that the 3D macro-porous structure of Cu-NC-3 provides adequate space for uniform dispersion of SCAs as the main active species, and smooth diffusion pathways for fast transport of substances (O₂, H₂O), therefore reducing the overpotential and the intermediate (H₂O₂) generation to enhance ORR activity. For MOR, Pt-Cu-NC-3 has a higher mass activity of 1217.4 mA/mg_Pt than that of Pt/C (752.4 mA/mg_Pt), and its activity maintenance (decline of 27.6%) is also better than Pt/C (decline of 44.0%) after 5000 cyclic voltammetry (CV) cycles. The interactions between SCAs and Pt nanoparticles should facilitate the generation of OH^- from water molecules, which can fast eliminate the adsorbed CO to recover the Pt active sites to improve MOR performance. This synthesis strategy affords a new inspiration to prepare single metal atoms loaded on ZIFs-derived macro-structure with diverse activities for ORR/MOR.
- Defects,
- Electrocatalytic activity,
- Macro-porous structure,
- Metal-nitrogen-carbon,
- Single atom catalyst
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