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Abstract
Adsorption energy (AE) of reactive intermediate is currently the most important descriptor for electrochemical reactions (e.g., water electrolysis, hydrogen fuel cell, electrochemical nitrogen fixation, electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction, etc.), which can bridge the gap between catalyst's structure and activity. Tracing the history and evolution of AE can help to understand electrocatalysis and design optimal electrocatalysts. Focusing on oxygen electrocatalysis, this review aims to provide a comprehensive introduction on how AE is selected as the activity descriptor, the intrinsic and empirical relationships related to AE, how AE links the structure and electrocatalytic performance, the approaches to obtain AE, the strategies to improve catalytic activity by modulating AE, the extrinsic influences on AE from the environment, and the methods in circumventing linear scaling relations of AE. An outlook is provided at the end with emphasis on possible future investigation related to the obstacles existing between adsorption energy and electrocatalytic performance.
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- Junming Zhang
- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637459, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637459, Singapore
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, P. R. China.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 35 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637459, Singapore
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Dan-dan Y, Yong Z, Hong-quan Y, Hong Z. Low temperature synthesis of NiO/CoO nanostructures to enhance their low temperature oxygen reduction catalysis. Micron 2022; 161:103326. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2022.103326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2022] [Revised: 07/02/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Wu R, Matta M, Paulsen BD, Rivnay J. Operando Characterization of Organic Mixed Ionic/Electronic Conducting Materials. Chem Rev 2022; 122:4493-4551. [PMID: 35026108 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Operando characterization plays an important role in revealing the structure-property relationships of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs), enabling the direct observation of dynamic changes during device operation and thus guiding the development of new materials. This review focuses on the application of different operando characterization techniques in the study of OMIECs, highlighting the time-dependent and bias-dependent structure, composition, and morphology information extracted from these techniques. We first illustrate the needs, requirements, and challenges of operando characterization then provide an overview of relevant experimental techniques, including spectroscopy, scattering, microbalance, microprobe, and electron microscopy. We also compare different in silico methods and discuss the interplay of these computational methods with experimental techniques. Finally, we provide an outlook on the future development of operando for OMIEC-based devices and look toward multimodal operando techniques for more comprehensive and accurate description of OMIECs.
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- Ruiheng Wu
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.,Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
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Raman spectroelectrochemical study of pyrrole electropolymerization in the presence of sulfonated polyelectrolytes. Electrochim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2021.138869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Ramani S, Cogal S, Lowe J, Bhethanabotla VR, Kuhn JN. Hybrid Co@Ni12P5/PPy microspheres with dual synergies for high performance oxygen evolution. J Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2020.08.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Wang D, Tian Q, Yang L, Kuang S, Jin R, Yue H, Wang G, Wang Q, Gao S. Separated Tellurium Nanoparticles Confined in Hollow Polypyrrole for High Performance Li‐Te Cathode. ChemistrySelect 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201902107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Deqiang Wang
- School of Chemistry & Materials ScienceLudong University Yantai 264025 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Materials ScienceLudong University Yantai 264025 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Materials ScienceLudong University Yantai 264025 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Materials ScienceLudong University Yantai 264025 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Materials ScienceLudong University Yantai 264025 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Materials ScienceLudong University Yantai 264025 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Materials ScienceLudong University Yantai 264025 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Materials ScienceLudong University Yantai 264025 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Materials ScienceLudong University Yantai 264025 P. R. China
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Bozzini B, Bocchetta P, Kourousias G, Gianoncelli A. Electrodeposition of Mn-Co/Polypyrrole Nanocomposites: An Electrochemical and In Situ Soft-X-ray Microspectroscopic Investigation. Polymers (Basel) 2017; 9:polym9010017. [PMID: 30970694 PMCID: PMC6432351 DOI: 10.3390/polym9010017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2016] [Revised: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 12/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Understanding the lateral variations in the elemental and chemical state of constituents induced by electrochemical reactions at nanoscales is crucial for the advancement of electrochemical materials science. This requires in situ studies to provide observables that contribute to both modeling beyond the phenomenological level and exactly transducing the functionally relevant quantities. A range of X-ray coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) approaches have recently been proposed for imaging beyond the diffraction limit with potentially dramatic improvements in time resolution with chemical sensitivity. In this paper, we report a selection of ptychography results obtained in situ during the electrodeposition of a metal–polymer nanocomposite. Our selection includes dynamic imaging during electrochemically driven growth complemented with absorption and phase spectroscopy with high lateral resolution. We demonstrate the onset of morphological instability feature formation and correlate the chemical state of Mn with the local growth rate controlled by the current density distribution resulting from morphological evolution.
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- Benedetto Bozzini
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento, via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento, via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. strada statale 14 km 163.5 in Area Science Park, Basovizza, 34012 Trieste, Italy.
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. strada statale 14 km 163.5 in Area Science Park, Basovizza, 34012 Trieste, Italy.
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Xue Y, Cai W, Zheng S, Yan W, Hu J, Sun Z, Zhang Y, Jin W. W-doped MoS2 nanosheets as a highly-efficient catalyst for hydrogen peroxide electroreduction in alkaline media. Catal Sci Technol 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cy01509g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Novel W-doped MoS2 electrocatalysts have been successfully fabricated through a facile one-pot solvothermal method and employed for the hydrogen peroxide reduction reaction (HPRR) in emerging alkaline H2O2-based fuel cells.
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- Yudong Xue
- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
- China
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- School of Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering and Life Sciences
- Wuhan University of Technology
- Wuhan 430070
- China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
- China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
- China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Central South University
- Changsha 410083
- China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
- China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
- China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
- China
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Bocchetta P, Sánchez CR, Taurino A, Bozzini B. Accurate Assessment of the Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalytic Activity of Mn/Polypyrrole Nanocomposites Based on Rotating Disk Electrode Measurements, Complemented with Multitechnique Structural Characterizations. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL METHODS IN CHEMISTRY 2016; 2016:2030675. [PMID: 28042491 PMCID: PMC5155125 DOI: 10.1155/2016/2030675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2016] [Revised: 10/18/2016] [Accepted: 10/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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This paper reports on the quantitative assessment of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalytic activity of electrodeposited Mn/polypyrrole (PPy) nanocomposites for alkaline aqueous solutions, based on the Rotating Disk Electrode (RDE) method and accompanied by structural characterizations relevant to the establishment of structure-function relationships. The characterization of Mn/PPy films is addressed to the following: (i) morphology, as assessed by Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM) and Atomic Force Microscope (AFM); (ii) local electrical conductivity, as measured by Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM); and (iii) molecular structure, accessed by Raman Spectroscopy; these data provide the background against which the electrocatalytic activity can be rationalised. For comparison, the properties of Mn/PPy are gauged against those of graphite, PPy, and polycrystalline-Pt (poly-Pt). Due to the literature lack of accepted protocols for precise catalytic activity measurement at poly-Pt electrode in alkaline solution using the RDE methodology, we have also worked on the obtainment of an intralaboratory benchmark by evidencing some of the time-consuming parameters which drastically affect the reliability and repeatability of the measurement.
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- Patrizia Bocchetta
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Centro de Investigación, Innovación y Desarrollo de Materiales-CIDEMAT, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA, Calle 70 No. 52-21, Medellín, Colombia
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- Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, IMM-CNR, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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Bocchetta P, Alemán B, Amati M, Fanetti M, Goldoni A, Gregoratti L, Kiskinova M, Mele C, Sezen H, Bozzini B. ORR stability of Mn–Co/polypyrrole nanocomposite electrocatalysts studied by quasi in-situ identical-location photoelectron microspectroscopy. Electrochem commun 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2016.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Zhang L, Li H, Li K, Wei J, Fu Q. Synthesis of hybrid carbon spheres@nitrogen-doped graphene/carbon nanotubes and their oxygen reduction activity performance. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra00819d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The hybrid architecture of carbon spheres@nitrogen-doped graphene/carbon nanotubes (CS@N-G/CNT) was synthesized by a hydrothermal and ultrasonic-assisted method.
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- Lijuan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing
- Carbon/Carbon Composites Research Center
- Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Xi'an
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing
- Carbon/Carbon Composites Research Center
- Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Xi'an
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing
- Carbon/Carbon Composites Research Center
- Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Xi'an
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing
- Carbon/Carbon Composites Research Center
- Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Xi'an
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing
- Carbon/Carbon Composites Research Center
- Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Xi'an
- China
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Bocchetta P, Amati M, Gregoratti L, Kiskinova M, Sezen H, Taurino A, Bozzini B. Morphochemical evolution during ageing of pyrolysed Mn/polypyrrole nanocomposite oxygen reduction electrocatalysts: A study based on quasi-in situ photoelectron spectromicroscopy. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2015.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Coelectrodeposition of Ternary Mn-Oxide/Polypyrrole Composites for ORR Electrocatalysts: A Study Based on Micro-X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and X-ray Fluorescence Mapping. ENERGIES 2015. [DOI: 10.3390/en8088145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Ge X, Sumboja A, Wuu D, An T, Li B, Goh FWT, Hor TSA, Zong Y, Liu Z. Oxygen Reduction in Alkaline Media: From Mechanisms to Recent Advances of Catalysts. ACS Catal 2015. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b00524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 805] [Impact Index Per Article: 89.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Xiaoming Ge
- Institute of Materials
Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology
and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 119602, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials
Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology
and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 119602, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials
Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology
and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 119602, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials
Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology
and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 119602, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials
Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology
and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 119602, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials
Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology
and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 119602, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials
Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology
and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 119602, Republic of Singapore
- Department
of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials
Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology
and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 119602, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials
Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology
and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 119602, Republic of Singapore
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Bozzini B, Bocchetta P, Gianoncelli A, Mele C, Kiskinova M. Electrodeposition and Ageing of Mn-Based Binary Composite Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalysts. ChemElectroChem 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.201500138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Benedetto Bozzini
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione; Università del Salento; via Monteroni 73100 Lecce Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione; Università del Salento; via Monteroni 73100 Lecce Italy
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- Elettra-Sinctrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. S.S. 14; km 163.5 in Area Science Park 34149 Trieste-Basovizza Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione; Università del Salento; via Monteroni 73100 Lecce Italy
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- Elettra-Sinctrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. S.S. 14; km 163.5 in Area Science Park 34149 Trieste-Basovizza Italy
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Effect of the Number of Benzene-Ring, the Functional Groups and the Absorbent Material on the Performance of Pt Nanoparticles Supported on Modified Graphite Nanoplatelet. Electrochim Acta 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.11.188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Bocchetta P, Amati M, Bozzini B, Catalano M, Gianoncelli A, Gregoratti L, Taurino A, Kiskinova M. Quasi-in-situ single-grain photoelectron microspectroscopy of Co/PPy nanocomposites under oxygen reduction reaction. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2014; 6:19621-19629. [PMID: 25369153 DOI: 10.1021/am504111s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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This paper reports an investigation into the aging of pyrolyzed cobalt/polypyrrole (Co/PPy) oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts, based on quasi-in-situ photoelectron microspectroscopy. The catalyst precursor was prepared by potentiostatic reverse-pulse coelectrodeposition from an acetonitrile solution on graphite. Accelerated aging was obtained by quasi-in-situ voltammetric cycling in an acidic electrolyte. Using photoelectron imaging and microspectroscopy of single Co/PPy grains at a resolution of 100 nm, we tracked the ORR-induced changes in the morphology and chemical state of the pristine material, consisting of uniformly distributed ∼20 nm nanoparticles, initially consisting of a mixture of Co(II) and Co(III) oxidation states in almost equal amounts. The evolution of the Co 2p, O 1s, and N 1s spectra revealed that the main effects of aging are a gradual loss of the Co present at the surface and the reduction of Co(III) to Co(II), accompanied by the emergence and growth of a N 1s signal, corresponding to electrocatalytically active C-N sites.
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- Patrizia Bocchetta
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento , via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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