Aligned carbon nanotube with electro-catalytic activity for oxygen reduction reaction

Patent · Tue Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:1013850

Liu, Di-Jia ^[1]; Yang, Junbing ^[2]; Wang, Xiaoping ^[1]

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1. Naperville, IL
2. Westmont, IL

A catalyst for an electro-chemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of a bundle of longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes having a catalytically active transition metal incorporated longitudinally in said nanotubes. A method of making an electro-chemical catalyst for an oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) having a bundle of longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes with a catalytically active transition metal incorporated throughout the nanotubes, where a substrate is in a first reaction zone, and a combination selected from one or more of a hydrocarbon and an organometallic compound containing an catalytically active transition metal and a nitrogen containing compound and an inert gas and a reducing gas is introduced into the first reaction zone which is maintained at a first reaction temperature for a time sufficient to vaporize material therein. The vaporized material is then introduced to a second reaction zone maintained at a second reaction temperature for a time sufficient to grow longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes over the substrate with a catalytically active transition metal incorporated throughout the nanotubes.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-31-109-ENG-38
• Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, IL)
• Patent Number(s): 7,767,616
• Application Number: 11/368,120
• OSTI ID: 1013850
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English