Carbon-based electrocatalysts for advanced energy conversion and storage

By Jintao Zhang, Z. Xia, L. Dai. Science Advances, 2015

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A review of the recent advances, along with perspectives and challenges, in the fast-growing field of carbon-based electrocatalysts. Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) play curial roles in electrochemical energy conversion and storage, including fuel cells and metal-air batteries. Having rich multidimensional nanoarchitectures [for example, zero-dimensional (0D) fullerenes, 1D carbon nanotubes, 2D graphene, and 3D graphite] with tunable electronic and surface characteristics, various carbon nanomaterials have been demonstrated to act as efficient metal-free electrocatalysts for ORR and OER in fuel cells and batteries. We present a critical review on the recent advances in carbon-based metal-free catalysts for fuel cells and metal-air batteries, and discuss the perspectives and challenges in this rapidly developing field of practical significance.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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• A review of oxygen reduction mechanisms for metal-free carbon-based electrocatalysts (2019, background): “Carbon materials are a new class of catalyst firstly reported by Dai’s group in 2009,(9) which holds the promise to replace Pt to efficiently catalyze the ORR in fuel cells, owing to their large surface area, good conductivity, tunable morphology, facile preparation, and economic viability.(10) It w”