Identification of catalytic sites in cobalt-nitrogen-carbon materials for the oxygen reduction reaction

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01100-7" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01100-7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01100-7" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-017-01100-7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Identification of catalytic sites in cobalt-nitrogen-carbon materials for the oxygen reduction reaction

Original language description

Single-atom catalysts with full utilization of metal centers can bridge the gap between molecular and solid-state catalysis. Metal-nitrogen-carbon materials prepared via pyrolysis are promising single-atom catalysts but often also comprise metallic particles. Here, we pyrolytically synthesize a Co-N-C material only comprising atomically dispersed cobalt ions and identify with X-ray absorption spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility measurements and density functional theory the structure and electronic state of three porphyrinic moieties, CoN4C12, CoN3C10,(porp) and CoN2C5. The O-2 electro-reduction and operando X-ray absorption response are measured in acidic medium on Co-N-C and compared to those of a Fe-N-C catalyst prepared similarly. We show that cobalt moieties are unmodified from 0.0 to 1.0 V versus a reversible hydrogen electrode, while Fe-based moieties experience structural and electronic-state changes. On the basis of density functional theory analysis and established relationships between redox potential and O-2-adsorption strength, we conclude that cobaltbased moieties bind O-2 too weakly for efficient O-2 reduction.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10403 - Physical chemistry

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nature Communications

ISSN

2041-1723

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000412999700025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85031813002