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FeNi doped porous carbon as an efficient catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction

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Polymer-derived porous carbon was used as a support of iron and nickel species with an objective to obtain an efficient oxygen reduction reaction (OER) catalyst. The surface features were extensively characterized using X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. On FeNi-modified carbon the overpotential for OER was very low (280 mV) and comparable to that on noble metal catalyst IrO2. The electrochemical properties have been investigated to reveal the difference between the binary alloy- and single metal-doped carbons. This work demonstrates a significant step for the development of low-cost, environmentally-friendly and highly-efficient OER catalysts.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21421001, 21875118) and the 111 Project (Grant No. B12015).

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    Jun-Wei Zhang, Hang Zhang & Tie-Zhen Ren

  2. Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China

    Zhong-Yong Yuan

  3. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The City College of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA

    Teresa J. Bandosz

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Zhang, JW., Zhang, H., Ren, TZ. et al. FeNi doped porous carbon as an efficient catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction. Front. Chem. Sci. Eng. 15, 279–287 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-020-1965-2

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