Preparation and investigation of carbon-based electrocatalysts from different parts of biomass for oxygen reduction reaction

WANG Ke-xin; YANG Gai-xiu; SUN Yong-ming; LI Jin-ping; WANG Chun-long

doi:10.19906/j.cnki.JFCT.2021034

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WANG Ke-xin, YANG Gai-xiu, SUN Yong-ming, LI Jin-ping, WANG Chun-long. Preparation and investigation of carbon-based electrocatalysts from different parts of biomass for oxygen reduction reaction[J]. Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, 2021, 49(6): 818-826. doi: 10.19906/j.cnki.JFCT.2021034

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WANG Ke-xin, YANG Gai-xiu, SUN Yong-ming, LI Jin-ping, WANG Chun-long. Preparation and investigation of carbon-based electrocatalysts from different parts of biomass for oxygen reduction reaction[J]. Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, 2021, 49(6): 818-826. doi: 10.19906/j.cnki.JFCT.2021034

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WANG Ke-xin, YANG Gai-xiu, SUN Yong-ming, LI Jin-ping, WANG Chun-long. Preparation and investigation of carbon-based electrocatalysts from different parts of biomass for oxygen reduction reaction[J]. Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, 2021, 49(6): 818-826. doi: 10.19906/j.cnki.JFCT.2021034

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Preparation and investigation of carbon-based electrocatalysts from different parts of biomass for oxygen reduction reaction

doi: 10.19906/j.cnki.JFCT.2021034

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Gansu Province Key Laboratory of Complementary Energy System of Biomass and Solar Energy, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China
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Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, CAS Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China

Funds: The project was supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2018YFE0111000), National Natural Science Foundation of China (51806224), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2019A1515011971)

Received Date: 2020-11-13
Rev Recd Date: 2020-12-31

Available Online: 2021-03-30

Publish Date: 2021-06-30

Abstract

Abstract

Carbon-based oxygen reduction catalysts are widely used in catalyzing the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) due to their low cost, good electrical conductivity, controllable pore structure and good electrochemical stability. In this paper, carbon materials were prepared from different parts of biomass (leaves and stems) through one-step pyrolysis method. The performance of the obtained catalysts was analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman, X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and Linear Sweep Voltammetry (LSV). The results demonstrate that compared with the stem carbon, the leaf carbon contains high contents of P, S and N, especially quaternary-N and pyridinic-N, which are responsible for the high performance in the ORR with onset potentials of 0.529, 0.215 and −0.046 V (vs. SCE) in wide ranges of pH (acid, alkali and neutral solutions, respectively). This indicates that biomass based carbon material especially leaf based shows a great application potential for catalyzing ORR in fuel cells.
- biomass based carbon materials,
- oxygen reduction reaction,
- self doped,
- one-step pyrolysis,
- fuel cells

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