Unlocking the Electrocatalytic Activity of Chemically Inert Amorphous Carbon-Nitrogen for Oxygen Reduction: Discerning and Refactoring Chaotic Bonds

Caihong Zhang; Wei Zhang; Dong Wang; Wenjing (Angela) Zhang; Weitao Zheng; Mao Wen; Keke Huang; Hongwei Tian; Shouhua Feng; Janet Jonna Bentzen

doi:10.1002/celc.201700106

Unlocking the Electrocatalytic Activity of Chemically Inert Amorphous Carbon-Nitrogen for Oxygen Reduction: Discerning and Refactoring Chaotic Bonds

Caihong Zhang, Wei Zhang, Dong Wang, Wenjing (Angela) Zhang, Weitao Zheng, Mao Wen, Keke Huang, Hongwei Tian, Shouhua Feng, Janet Jonna Bentzen

Department of Energy Conversion and Storage

Jilin University

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Abstract

Mild annealing enables inactive nitrogen (N)-doped amorphous carbon (a-C) films abundant with chaotic bonds prepared by magnetron sputtering to become effective for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) by virtue of generating pyridinic N. The rhythmic variation of ORR activity elaborates well on the subtle evolution of the amorphous C−N bonds conferred by spectroscopic analysis.

Original language	English
Journal	ChemElectroChem
Volume	4
Issue number	6
Pages (from-to)	1269-1273
ISSN	2196-0216
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201700106
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Unlocking the Electrocatalytic Activity of Chemically Inert Amorphous Carbon-Nitrogen for Oxygen Reduction: Discerning and Refactoring Chaotic Bonds

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