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Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H2O2
Electrochemical 2‐electron oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a promising route for renewable and on‐site H2O2 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%) H2O2 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 H2O2 productivity of 264.8 mol kgcat–1 h–1.
Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H2O2
Electrochemical 2‐electron oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a promising route for renewable and on‐site H2O2 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%) H2O2 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 H2O2 productivity of 264.8 mol kgcat–1 h–1.
Synergistic Effects in N,O‐Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H2O2
Xu, Shuhui (author) / Lu, Ruihu (author) / Sun, Kai (author) / Tang, Jialun (author) / Cen, Yaping (author) / Luo, Liang (author) / Wang, Ziyun (author) / Tian, Shubo (author) / Sun, Xiaoming (author)
Advanced Science ; 9
2022-09-01
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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