NiCo Alloy Nanoparticles Decorated on N‐Doped Carbon Nanofibers as Highly Active and Durable Oxygen Electrocatalyst
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The exploring of catalysts with high‐efficiency and low‐cost for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is one of the key issues for many renewable energy systems including fuel cells, metal–air batteries, and water splitting. Despite several decades pursuing, bifunctional oxygen catalysts with high catalytic performance at low‐cost, especially the one that could be easily scaled up for mass production are still missing and highly desired. Herein, a hybrid catalyst with NiCo alloy nanoparticles decorated on N‐doped carbon nanofibers is synthesized by a facile electrospinning method and postcalcination treatment. The hybrid catalyst NiCo@N‐C 2 exhibits outstanding ORR and OER catalytic performances, which is even surprisingly superior to the commercial Pt/C and RuO 2 catalysts, respectively. The synergetic effects between alloy nanoparticles and the N‐doped carbon fiber are considered as the main contributions for the excellent catalytic activities, which include decreasing the intrinsic and charge transfer resistances, increasing CC, graphitic‐N/pyridinic‐N contents in the hybrid catalyst. This work opens up a new way to fabricate high‐efficient, low‐cost oxygen catalysts with high production.
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- Authors
- Fu, Y., Yu, H., Jiang, C., Zhang, T., Zhan, R., Li, X., Li, J., Tian, J., & Yang, R.
- Affiliations
- Soochow University (CN)
- Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationS College of Physics, Optoelectronics and Energy & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology Soochow University Suzhou 215006 China
- Xiamen University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Tian, Jing‐Hua
- Yang, Ruizhi
- Venue
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-12-15
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 9
- ISSN
- 1616-301X (ISSN-L)
- 1616-3028
- OpenAlex
- W2774847238
- Cited by
- 523
- References
- 73
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 52 · 2023: 61 · 2022: 82 · 2021: 71 · 2020: 87 · 2019: 74 · 2018: 36
- FWCI
- 14.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advanced Functional Materials (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21673153, 21303114, 51272167, 51572181)
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20161207)
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M611894)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
- Keywords
- N-doped carbon nanofibers, bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts, oxygen reduction reaction, oxygen evolution reaction, electrospinning, synergistic effect, metal-air batteries, fuel cells, water splitting, pyridinic nitrogen, charge transfer resistance
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