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Indexed by:期刊论文
Date of Publication:2015-08-21
Journal:JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Included Journals:SCIE、EI、Scopus
Volume:3
Issue:31
Page Number:16072-16078
ISSN No.:2050-7488
Abstract:A cost-efficient and environmentally benign strategy for large-scale production of metal oxide/metal-decorated 3D porous graphene directly converted from waste papers with a cobalt(II) complex was successfully developed. The resulting Co3O4/Co immobilized in porous graphene served as a spacer to prevent restacking of graphene and also provided more accessible active sites. As a demonstration, the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) was chosen to show the catalytic activity of the high-added-value Co3O4/Co@graphene composite. Due to the synergistic catalytic effects between Co3O4 and graphene combined with a hierarchical porous structure, the synthesized 3D functional porous graphene can function as an efficient ORR catalyst with comparable performance to that of a Pt/C catalyst, which shows its potential application in fuel cells.