Citation: Men Yana, Su Jun, Huang Chaozhang, Liang Lijing, Cai Ping, Cheng Gongzhen, Luo Wei. Three-dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogel supported Co-CeO_x nanoclusters as efficient catalysts for hydrogen generation from hydrolysis of ammonia borane[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2018, 29(11): 1671-1674. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2018.04.009 shu

Three-dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogel supported Co-CeO_x nanoclusters as efficient catalysts for hydrogen generation from hydrolysis of ammonia borane

Men Yana ^a,1 ,
Su Jun ^b,1 ,
Huang Chaozhang ^c ,
Liang Lijing ^a ,
Cai Ping ^a,, ,
Cheng Gongzhen ^a ,
Luo Wei ^a,,

a.
College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
b.
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
c.
Technical Center of Fujian Tobacco Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361022, China

Corresponding author: Cai Ping, caiping@whu.edu.cn Luo Wei, wluo@whu.edu.cn

Received Date: 27 January 2018
Revised Date: 3 April 2018
Accepted Date: 9 April 2018
Available Online: 16 November 2018

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The development of highly active noble-metal-free catalysts for catalytic hydrolysis of ammonia borane is mandatory for its application in hydrogen storage. Herein, Co-CeO_x nanoclusters have been successfully anchored on a three-dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogel (NGH) by a simple coreduction method and further used as efficient catalysts to catalytic hydrolysis of ammonia borane at room temperature. Thanks to the strong synergistic electronic effect between Co and CeO_x, as well as the strong metal-support interaction between Co-CeO_x and 3D NGH, the as-synthesized Co-(CeO_x)_0.91/NGH catalyst exhibits superior catalytic activity toward hydrolysis of ammonia borane, with the turnover frequency (TOF) value of 79.5 min^-1, which is almost 13 times higher than that of Co/NGH, and higher than most of the reported noble-metal-free catalysts.
- Nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogel,
- Co-CeO_X,
- Hydrogen storage,
- Ammonia borane,
- Noble-metal-free
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