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FeNi Alloy Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Carbon Shells Supported on N‐Doped Graphene‐Like Carbon as Efficient and Stable Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts
Author(s) -
Li GuangLan,
Yang BeiBei,
Xu XiaoCun,
Cao Shuo,
Shi Yantao,
Yan Yang,
Song Xuedan,
Hao Ce
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201904685
Subject(s) - bifunctional , graphene , carbon fibers , alloy , nanoparticle , materials science , doping , oxygen , chemical engineering , oxygen evolution , nanotechnology , chemistry , catalysis , electrode , metallurgy , electrochemistry , composite number , composite material , organic chemistry , optoelectronics , engineering
The development of cost‐effective and durable oxygen electrocatalysts remains highly critical but challenging for energy conversion and storage devices. Herein, a novel FeNi alloy nanoparticle core encapsulated in carbon shells supported on a N‐enriched graphene‐like carbon matrix (denoted as FeNi@C/NG) was constructed by facile pyrolyzing the mixture of metal salts, glucose, and dicyandiamide. The in situ pyrolysis of dicyandiamide in the presence of glucose plays a significant effect on the fabrication of the porous FeNi@C/NG with a high content of doped N and large specific surface area. The optimized FeNi@C/NG catalyst displays not only a superior catalytic performance for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR, with an onset potential of 1.0 V and half‐wave potential of 0.84 V) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER, the potential at 10 mA cm −2 is 1.66 V) simultaneously in alkaline, but also outstanding long‐term cycling durability. The excellent bifunctional ORR/OER electrocatalytic performance is ascribed to the synergism of the carbon shell and FeNi alloy core together with the high‐content of nitrogen doped on the large specific surface area graphene‐like carbon.