Issue 30, 2023

Isolated iron single-atom sites for oxygen reduction derived from a porphyrin-based carbon sphere by a polymerization–coordination–pyrolysis strategy

Abstract

Metal isolated single-atom site (ISAS) catalysts serving as promising candidates to substitute nano-catalysts have attracted extensive interest in catalysis. Herein, we prepared Fe, Co and Ni-ISASs, anchored on N-doped carbon (CN) derived from a porphyrin-based carbon sphere by a polymerization–coordination–pyrolysis strategy, much simpler and cheaper than conventional methods to prepare metal ISASs derived from metal–porphyrin-based precursors. The Fe-ISAS/CN catalyst exhibited excellent catalytic performance for alkaline oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), with a half-wave potential of 0.881 V vs. RHE, 36 mV more positive than that of commercial 20 wt% Pt/C, with good stability and methanol tolerance. Besides, Fe-ISAS/CN also exhibited better reactivity and stability for Zn–air batteries. This strategy effectively avoided the usage of expensive commercial metal–porphyrin-based monomers or the complicated and time-consuming procedure during the manual synthesis and purification of metal–porphyrin-based monomers, which will provide inspiration to rationally design metal ISAS catalysts derived from metal–porphyrin-based precursors as promising candidates for Pt-based catalysts for both the ORR and Zn–air batteries.

Graphical abstract: Isolated iron single-atom sites for oxygen reduction derived from a porphyrin-based carbon sphere by a polymerization–coordination–pyrolysis strategy

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Apr 2023
Accepted
10 Jul 2023
First published
10 Jul 2023

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023,11, 16314-16320

Isolated iron single-atom sites for oxygen reduction derived from a porphyrin-based carbon sphere by a polymerization–coordination–pyrolysis strategy

S. Wei, R. Yang and Q. Zhang, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, 11, 16314 DOI: 10.1039/D3TA02145A

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