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Manganese vanadium oxide hollow microspheres: a novel electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

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The development of nonprecious catalysts with high electrocatalytic activities for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has attracted considerable attention. In this work, we report a facile route for the synthesis of electrocatalytic manganese vanadium oxide (Mn2V2O7) with a typical thortveitite (A2B2O7) structure for the ORR. Hollow Mn2V2O7 microspheres with diameters of ∼1 μm were synthesized in two steps, which included sol-gel preprocessing and a subsequent hydrothermal process. The ORR performances of the hollow Mn2V2O7 microspheres were systematically studied in a 0.1 M KOH electrolyte using a rotating disk electrode. Results indicated that the hollow Mn2V2O7 microspheres had excellent catalytic activities towards the ORR, performing similarly to a commercial Pt/C electrocatalyst. The as-prepared catalyst also exhibited a superior durability and methanol tolerance compared to those of the commercial Pt/C catalyst, suggesting that hollow Mn2V2O7 microspheres is a promising cathode catalyst for alkaline methanol fuel cell applications.

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This work was financially supported by New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-13-0684), Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, People’s Republic of China), National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. 61574020, 51572032, 61376018, 51472221, 51472033, 51472196, 61377097).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications and School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Liyan Zhao, Sen Lin, Ke Bi, Ce Liang, Hujiang Yang, Dongyu Fan, Yonggang Wang & Ming Lei

  2. Department of Mathematics and Physics, Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry Management, Zhengzhou, 450015, China

    Yinxiao Du

  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410083, China

    Jun Liu

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Zhao, L., Lin, S., Bi, K. et al. Manganese vanadium oxide hollow microspheres: a novel electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction. J Solid State Electrochem 21, 1743–1749 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-017-3548-9

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