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The activity of Fe/Co/Ni multi-metal doped electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

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In order to reveal the relationship between the structure and the electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity of different double transition metal decorated catalysts, three different double transition metal and N co-doped carbon material cathode catalyst materials (FeCo–NC, FeNi–NC and CoNi–NC) were prepared in this study. The FeCo–NC catalysts synthesised in this study still showed high ORR activity under alkaline conditions, with a half-wave potential of 0.783 VRHE, a mass activity (MA) of 11.36 A/g (0.77 VRHE) and an ultimate current density of − 4.46 mA cm−2; after 30,000 cycles, the half-wave potential only decreased to 99.3% of the initial potential. Meanwhile, we employ MS to establish three different double transition metal and N co-doped graphene catalysts and to calculate and analyse their desorption properties, leading to the FeCo–NC material being the model with the highest ORR activity, which is consistent with the experimental results.

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Funding was provided by High-end Foreign Experts Recruitment Plan of China (Grant Number G2022013028L).

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    Junjie Ma, Hangcheng Liu, Zeyu Tao, Jianfeng Liu, Binxia Yuan, Weiguo Pan & Zhengrong Shi

  2. Key Laboratory of Environmental Protection Technology for Clean Power Generation in Machinery Industry, Shanghai, 200090, China

    Jianfeng Liu & Weiguo Pan

  3. Shanghai Non-carbon Energy Conversion and Utilization Institute, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Zhengrong Shi

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Ma, J., Liu, H., Tao, Z. et al. The activity of Fe/Co/Ni multi-metal doped electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction. Journal of Materials Research 38, 2359–2368 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-023-00944-8

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