Journal article
From biological enzyme to single atomic Fe-N-C electrocatalyst for efficient oxygen reduction
WJ Jiang, WL Hu, QH Zhang, TT Zhao, H Luo, X Zhang, L Gu, JS Hu, LJ Wan
Chemical Communications | ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc08149a
Abstract
Inspired by metabolic processes in biological systems, animal blood as a biowaste rich in biological enzymes with molecular Fe-N centers was successfully explored to produce an efficient electrocatalyst with single atomic Fe-N-C active sites for oxygen reduction reaction.
Grants
Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China
Funding Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the financial support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB0101202), the National Key Project on Basic Research (2015CB932302), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91645123 and 21773263), the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (BX201700250), and the project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M620912). The authors also thank the support from beamline BL14W1 (Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility).