Identification of catalytic sites in cobalt-nitrogen-carbon materials for the oxygen reduction reaction

Nitrogen-doped carbon materials with atomically dispersed iron or cobalt are promising for catalytic use. Here, the authors show that cobalt moieties have a higher redox potential, bind oxygen more weakly and are less active toward oxygen reduction than their iron counterpart, despite similar coordi...

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Main Authors: Andrea Zitolo, Nastaran Ranjbar-Sahraie, Tzonka Mineva, Jingkun Li, Qingying Jia, Serban Stamatin, George F. Harrington, Stephen Mathew Lyth, Petr Krtil, Sanjeev Mukerjee, Emiliano Fonda, Frédéric Jaouen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01100-7