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Inflating strategy to fabricate highly dispersed Fe, N co-doped hierarchically porous carbon for ORR and supercapacitor

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Doped-carbon nanomaterials as effective electrocatalysts have been received widespread attention in oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and supercapacitors system. Herein, the high-active Fe atoms dispersed on hierarchically porous N-doped carbon (FeNC-X) is synthesized via inflating the Fe-ion-denatured egg-white, followed by activation and pyrolysis. Among them, the as-prepared FeNC-900 for ORR that has an inner-connecting hierarchically porous structure shows a superior performance with a limiting current density of 5.28 mA cm−2 and half-wave potential (E1/2) of 0.839 V (vs RHE), and exhibits a 4 e− ORR pathway in the alkaline medium. FeNC-900 also shows better durability and good methanol tolerance than those of commercial Pt/C. Besides, FeNC-900 exhibits an outstanding specific capacity of 258 F g−1 at 1 A g−1 for supercapacitor. The method presented here may provide a cost-efficient approach to fabricate carbon-based materials for ORR and supercapacitors.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51872013, 52073009, 51672019), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFA0206902), the 111 Project (B14009).

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Xiao, G., Wang, X., Li, X. et al. Inflating strategy to fabricate highly dispersed Fe, N co-doped hierarchically porous carbon for ORR and supercapacitor. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 26341–26350 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-06986-0

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