Engineering Isolated Mn-N2C2 Atomic Interface Sites for Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reaction
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- 8 July 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Nano Letters
- Vol. 20 (7), 5443-5450
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01925
Abstract
Oxygen-involved electrochemical reactions are crucial for plenty of energy conversion techniques. Herein, we rationally designed a carbon-based Mn-N2C2 bifunctional electrocatalyst. It exhibits a half-wave potential of 0.915 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), and the overpotential is 350 mV at 10 mA cm(-2) during oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline condition. Furthermore, by means of operando X-ray absorption fine structure measurements, we reveal that the bond-length-extended Mn2+-N2C2 atomic interface sites act as active centers during the ORR process, while the bond-length-shortened high-valence Mn4+-N2C2 moieties serve as the catalytic sites for OER, which is consistent with the density functional theory results. The atomic and electronic synergistic effects for the isolated Mn sites and the carbon support play a critical role to promote the oxygen-involved catalytic performance, by regulating the reaction free energy of intermediate adsorption. Our results give an atomic interface strategy for nonprecious bifunctional single-atom electrocatalysts.Funding Information
- Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2018YFA0702003)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21643003, 21671117, 21703219, 21801015, 21871159, 21890383, 51501010, 51631001, 51702016, 51872030)
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