Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Advanced Science
Publisher
Wiley
School
School of Engineering
RAS ID
61983
Funders
This study was supported by the Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFB2404102), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51771103 and 52171158), and Key Research and Development Program of Shandong Province (grant no. 2021ZLGX01).
Abstract
Metallic glass, with its unique disordered atomic structure and high density of low-coordination sites, is regarded as the most competitive new catalyst for environmental catalysis. However, the efficiency and stability of metallic glass catalysts are often affected by their atomic configuration. Thus, the design and regulation of the nanoscale structure of metallic glasses to improve their catalytic efficiency and stability remains a challenge. Herein, a non-noble component, Fe75P15C10 amorphous ribbon, is used as a precursor to fabricate a hierarchical gradient catalyst with nanoscale heterogeneous and oxygenous amorphous structure by simple annealing and acid-immersing. The resulting catalyst offers an ultrahigh catalytic ability of kSA•C0 = 3101 mg m−2 min−1 and excellent reusability of 39 times without efficiency decay in dye wastewater degradation. Theoretical calculations indicate that the excellent catalytic performance of the catalyst can be attributed to its unique heterogeneous nanoglass structure, which induces oxygen atoms. Compared to the FePC structure, the FeP/FePCO structure exhibits strong charge transferability, and the energy barrier of the rate-determining steps of the conversion of S2O82− to SO4−• is reduced from 2.52 to 0.97 eV. This study reveals that a heterogeneous nanoglass structure is a new strategy for obtaining high catalytic performance.
DOI
10.1002/advs.202304045
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Chen, Q., Guo, L., Di, H., Qi, Z., Wang, Z., Song, Z., ... & Wang, W. (2023). Nanoscale oxygenous heterogeneity in FePC glass for highly efficient and reusable catalytic performance. Advanced Science, 10(31), article 2304045. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202304045