Citation: Bingshuai Liu, Huang Zhou, Huihui Jin, Jiawei Zhu, Zhe Wang, Chenxi Hu, Lvhan Liang, Shichun Mu, Daping He. A new strategy to access Co/N co-doped carbon nanotubes as oxygen reduction reaction catalysts[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2021, 32(1): 535-538. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2020.04.002 shu

A new strategy to access Co/N co-doped carbon nanotubes as oxygen reduction reaction catalysts

Bingshuai Liu ^a ,
Huang Zhou ^a ,
Huihui Jin ^a ,
Jiawei Zhu ^a ,
Zhe Wang ^a ,
Chenxi Hu ^a ,
Lvhan Liang ^a ,
Shichun Mu ^a ,
Daping He ^{a, b, *,}

a.
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
b.
Hubei Engineering Research Center of RF-Microwave Technology and Application, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

hedaping@whut.edu.cn

Received Date: 6 February 2020
Revised Date: 11 March 2020
Accepted Date: 2 April 2020
Available Online: 12 April 2020

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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), as one-dimensional nanomaterials, show great potential in energy conversion and storage due to their efficient electrical conductivity and mass transfer. However, the security risks, time-consuming and high cost of the preparation process hinder its further application. Here, we develop that a negative pressure rather than a following gas environment can promote the generation of cobalt and nitrogen co-doped CNTs (Co/N-CNTs) by using cobalt zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-67) as a precursor, in which the negative pressure plays a key role in adjusting the size of cobalt nanoparticles and stimulating the rearragement of carbon atoms for forming CNTs. Importantly, the obtained Co/N-CNTs, with high content of pyridinic nitrogen and abundant graphitized structure, exhibit superior catalytic activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) with half-wave potential (E_1/2) of 0.85 V and durability in terms of the minimum current loss (2%) after the 30, 000 s test. Our development provides a new pathway for large-scale and cost-effective preparation of metal-doped CNTs for various applications.
- Negative pressure,
- Cobalt zeolitic imidazolate framework,
- Cobalt and nitrogen co-doped,
- Carbon nanotubes,
- Oxygen reduction reaction
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