Citation: Fei-Yan ZHANG, Kui XIE. Porous Iron- and Cobalt-based Single Crystals with Enhanced Electrocatalysis Performance[J]. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, ;2021, 40(1): 61-69. doi: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254–5861.2011–2745 shu

Porous Iron- and Cobalt-based Single Crystals with Enhanced Electrocatalysis Performance

Fei-Yan ZHANG ^{a, b} ,
Kui XIE ^{a, b,,}

a.
College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China
b.
Key Laboratory of Design & Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China

Corresponding author: Kui XIE, kxie@fjirsm.ac.cn
Received Date: 20 January 2020
Accepted Date: 23 March 2020

Fund Project: the Natural Science Foundation of China 91845202the Natural Science Foundation of China 21750110433Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy DNL180404Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences XDB2000000

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Porous single crystals have the characteristics of long-range ordering structure and large specific surface area, which will significantly enhance their electrochemical performance. Here, we report a method different from the conventional porous single crystal growth method. This method is to directly convert single crystal precursors Co₃O₄ and Fe₃O₄ into Co₂N and Fe₂N, and then further reduces them to porous single crystals Co and Fe particles under H₂/Ar atmosphere. The removal of O^2– in the lattice channel at the pressure of 25~300 torr and the temperature of 300~600 ℃ will promote nitridation of the single-crystalline Co–O and Fe–O frames, and further remove N^3– in H₂/Ar atmosphere and recrystallize as Co and Fe. These porous single crystals exhibit enhanced electrochemical properties due to their structural coherence and highly active surface. We demonstrated that the aminobenzene yield was up to 91% and the selectivity reached 92% in the electrochemical reduction of nitrobenzene.
- porous single crystal,
- crystal growth,
- electrocatalysis
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