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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2015 Aug 17;54(34):9907-10. doi: 10.1002/anie.201503159. Epub 2015 Jul 03.

S-Doping of an Fe/N/C ORR Catalyst for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells with High Power Density.

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)

Yu-Cheng Wang, Yu-Jiao Lai, Lin Song, Zhi-You Zhou, Jian-Guo Liu, Qiang Wang, Xiao-Dong Yang, Chi Chen, Wei Shi, Yan-Ping Zheng, Muhammad Rauf, Shi-Gang Sun

Affiliations

  1. State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative innovation center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 (China).
  2. State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative innovation center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 (China). [email protected].
  3. Eco-materials and Renewable Energy Research Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 (China).
  4. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237 (China).
  5. State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative innovation center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 (China). [email protected].

PMID: 26140619 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201503159

Abstract

Fe/N/C is a promising non-Pt electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), but its catalytic activity is considerably inferior to that of Pt in acidic medium, the environment of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). An improved Fe/N/C catalyst (denoted as Fe/N/C-SCN) derived from Fe(SCN)3, poly-m-phenylenediamine, and carbon black is presented. The advantage of using Fe(SCN)3 as iron source is that the obtained catalyst has a high level of S doping and high surface area, and thus exhibits excellent ORR activity (23 A g(-1) at 0.80 V) in 0.1 M H2SO4 solution. When the Fe/N/C-SCN was applied in a PEMFC as cathode catalyst, the maximal power density could exceed 1 W cm(-2).

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Keywords: electrocatalysis; fuel cells; iron; oxygen reduction reaction; sulfur

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