Tailored ionic liquid for metal-free carbons toward oxygen reduction reaction

Authors

Jian Gao
Xiujuan Chu
Xiaoyao Tan
Hongqi Sun, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Zhen Yin
Shaobin Wang

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Carbon Trends

Volume

3

Publisher

Elsevier

School

School of Engineering

RAS ID

45135

Funders

National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21776219, 21872104)

Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin for Distinguished Young Scholar (No. 20JCJQJC00150)

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No 2018M631746)

The Basic Research Program of Jiangsu (SBK20201213)

Comments

Gao, J., Chu, X., Tan, X., Sun, H., Yin, Z., & Wang, S. (2021). Tailored ionic liquid for metal-free carbons toward oxygen reduction reaction. Carbon Trends, 3, 100038.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cartre.2021.100038

Abstract

Carbon catalysts have been widely used for various electrochemical reactions including oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and their catalytic activities are significantly dependent on carbon precursors. Ionic liquids (ILs) are promising precursors of heteroatom-doped carbon electrocatalysts for ORR. Herein, we demonstrated that an IL tailored with π-π conjugated interaction introduced by a π-electron enriched aromatic ring can offer a carbon material with improved ORR activity.

DOI

10.1016/j.cartre.2021.100038

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