Janus structural TaON/Graphene-like carbon dual-supported Pt electrocatalyst enables efficient oxygen reduction reaction.

J Colloid Interface Sci

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Energy Materials and Chemistry, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, P. R. China; Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Chemistry and Physics of Rare Earth Materials, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, P. R. China. Electronic address: c

Published: January 2025


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Developing carbon-supported Pt-based electrocatalysts with high activity and long-durability for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is an enormous challenge for their commercial applications due to the corrosion of carbon supports in acid/alkaline solution at high potential. In this work, a Janus structural TaON/graphene-like carbon (GLC) was synthesized via an in-situ molecular selfassembly strategy, which was used as a dual-carrier for platinum (Pt). The as-obtained Pt/TaON/GLC presents high half-wave potential (0.94 V vs. RHE), excellent mass (1.48 A mg) and specific (1.75 mA cm) activities at 0.9 V, and superior long-term durability with a minimal loss (8.0 %) of mass activity after 10,000 cycles in alkaline solution, outperforming those of Pt/C and other catalysts. The structural characterizations and density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate that the Pt/TaON/GLC catalyst exhibits the maximum synergies, including enhanced interfacial electron density, improved charge transfer, enhanced O adsorption, andsuperimposed OO cleavage. This work shows a potential strategy for preparing the high-active and long-durable Pt-based electrocatalyst by synergism-promoted interface engineering.

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