Electron-Donors-Acceptors Interaction Enhancing Electrocatalytic Activity of Metal-Organic Polymers for Oxygen Reduction

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Catalysts with metal-Nx sites have long been considered as effective electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), yet the accurate structure-property correlations of these active sites remain debatable. Report here is a proof-of-concept method to construct 1,4,8,11-tetraaza[14]annulene (TAA)-based polymer nanocomposites with well-managed electronic microenvironment via electron-donors/acceptors interaction of altering electron-withdrawing β-site substituents. DFT calculation proves the optimal -Cl substituted catalyst (CoTAA-ClGR) tailored the key OH* intermediate interaction with Co-N4 sites under the d-orbital regulation, hence reaching the top of ORR performance with excellent turnover frequency (0.49 e s-1 site-1 ). The combination of in situ scanning electrochemical microscopy and variable-frequency square wave voltammetry techniques contribute the great ORR kinetics of CoTAA-Cl@GR to the relatively high accessible site density (7.71×1019  site g-1 ) and fast electron outbound propagation mechanism. This work provides theoretical guidance for rational design of high-performance catalysts for ORR and beyond.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:62

Enthalten in:

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) - 62(2023), 33 vom: 14. Aug., Seite e202306667

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Bingyu [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Xiannong [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Yaoshuai [VerfasserIn]
Li, Longbin [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Ting [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yiwang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Electrocatalyst
Electron-Donors-Acceptors
Journal Article
Oxygen Reduction
Structure-Property Correlations
Zinc-Air Battery

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Date Revised 08.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/anie.202306667

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM358802652