A facile synthesis of Fe3C@mesoporous carbon nitride nanospheres with superior electrocatalytic activity

Ben Liu; Huiqin Yao; Robert A. Daniels; Wenqiao Song; Haoquan Zheng; Lei Jin; Steven L. Suib; Jie He

doi:10.1039/C6NR00604C

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A facile synthesis of Fe₃C@mesoporous carbon nitride nanospheres with superior electrocatalytic activity†

Ben Liu,‡^a Huiqin Yao,‡^ab Robert A. Daniels,^ac Wenqiao Song,^a Haoquan Zheng,^d Lei Jin,^a Steven L. Suib*^ae and Jie He*^ae

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^a Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
E-mail: steven.suib@uconn.edu, jie.he@uconn.edu

^b Department of Chemistry, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, 750004 China

^c Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, St. Cloud State University, St Could, MN, USA

^d Berzelii Center EXSELENT on Porous Materials, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

^e Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Abstract

We report a colloidal amphiphile-templating approach to preparing nanosized Fe₃C encapsulated within mesoporous nitrogen-doped carbon nanospheres (Fe₃C@mCN). The obtained Fe₃C@mCN hybrids having a high surface area and ultrafine Fe₃C nanocrystals exhibited superior activity and durability for oxygen reduction.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C6NR00604C
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 22 Jan 2016
Accepted: 10 Feb 2016
First published: 10 Feb 2016

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Nanoscale, 2016,8, 5441-5445

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A facile synthesis of Fe₃C@mesoporous carbon nitride nanospheres with superior electrocatalytic activity

B. Liu, H. Yao, R. A. Daniels, W. Song, H. Zheng, L. Jin, S. L. Suib and J. He, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 5441 DOI: 10.1039/C6NR00604C

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