The development of non-noble metal oxidation reduction catalysts(ORR)to improve microbial fuel cell(MFC)performance remains extremely challenging.Herein,the nitrogen-doped iron-based porous carbon nanotube Fe/N@MC-T O...The development of non-noble metal oxidation reduction catalysts(ORR)to improve microbial fuel cell(MFC)performance remains extremely challenging.Herein,the nitrogen-doped iron-based porous carbon nanotube Fe/N@MC-T ORR catalysts were derived from Fe/N-MOF by pyrolyzation using acetonitrile as the nitrogen precursor in a low-cost organic solvent.The Fe/N@MC-T catalysts under different pyrolysis temperatures were characterized by SEM,TEM,BET,XRD,and XPS techniques.Fe/N-MOF showed a smooth rice-like structure with a particle size of about 400×50 nm^(2).The Fe species in Fe/N@MC-T mainly exists in the form of zero-valent iron with a small amount of Fe3C.The results of electrochemical tests revealed that the onset and half-wave potentials of Fe/N@MC-700 were 0.89 V and 0.80 V,respectively,which were only slightly lower than those of the commercial Pt/C(0.92 V and 0.82 V).The MFC with Fe/N@MC-700 showed a highest power density of 864.1 mW/m^(2),which was about 2.25 times that of MFC with carbon cloth,and was slightly lower than that of MFC with Pt/C(20%)(1002.0 mW/m^(2)),which demonstrated that the Fe particles wrapped in carbon nanotubes possessed a relatively high ORR activity.展开更多
文摘The development of non-noble metal oxidation reduction catalysts(ORR)to improve microbial fuel cell(MFC)performance remains extremely challenging.Herein,the nitrogen-doped iron-based porous carbon nanotube Fe/N@MC-T ORR catalysts were derived from Fe/N-MOF by pyrolyzation using acetonitrile as the nitrogen precursor in a low-cost organic solvent.The Fe/N@MC-T catalysts under different pyrolysis temperatures were characterized by SEM,TEM,BET,XRD,and XPS techniques.Fe/N-MOF showed a smooth rice-like structure with a particle size of about 400×50 nm^(2).The Fe species in Fe/N@MC-T mainly exists in the form of zero-valent iron with a small amount of Fe3C.The results of electrochemical tests revealed that the onset and half-wave potentials of Fe/N@MC-700 were 0.89 V and 0.80 V,respectively,which were only slightly lower than those of the commercial Pt/C(0.92 V and 0.82 V).The MFC with Fe/N@MC-700 showed a highest power density of 864.1 mW/m^(2),which was about 2.25 times that of MFC with carbon cloth,and was slightly lower than that of MFC with Pt/C(20%)(1002.0 mW/m^(2)),which demonstrated that the Fe particles wrapped in carbon nanotubes possessed a relatively high ORR activity.
