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Title: Direct atomic-level insight into the active sites of a high-performance PGM-free ORR catalyst

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Sustainable Transportation Office. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies Office
OSTI Identifier:
1376619
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1458952
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-16-25762
Journal ID: ISSN 0036-8075
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 357; Journal Issue: 6350; Journal ID: ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher:
AAAS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Energy Sciences; fuel cell, oxygen reduction reaction, PGM-free catalysts

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Chung, Hoon T., Cullen, David A., Higgins, Drew, Sneed, Brian T., Holby, Edward F., More, Karren L., and Zelenay, Piotr. Direct atomic-level insight into the active sites of a high-performance PGM-free ORR catalyst. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1126/science.aan2255.
Chung, Hoon T., Cullen, David A., Higgins, Drew, Sneed, Brian T., Holby, Edward F., More, Karren L., & Zelenay, Piotr. Direct atomic-level insight into the active sites of a high-performance PGM-free ORR catalyst. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan2255
Chung, Hoon T., Cullen, David A., Higgins, Drew, Sneed, Brian T., Holby, Edward F., More, Karren L., and Zelenay, Piotr. Fri . "Direct atomic-level insight into the active sites of a high-performance PGM-free ORR catalyst". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan2255. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1376619.
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title = {Direct atomic-level insight into the active sites of a high-performance PGM-free ORR catalyst},
author = {Chung, Hoon T. and Cullen, David A. and Higgins, Drew and Sneed, Brian T. and Holby, Edward F. and More, Karren L. and Zelenay, Piotr},
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doi = {10.1126/science.aan2255},
journal = {Science},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: Hierarchical pore structure. (A) Micropore and mesopore size distributions. The micropore size distribution had peaks associated with three pore widths: 0.8, 1.1, and 1.5 nm; (B) and (C) SEM images of PANI-Fe-C and (CM+PANI)-Fe-C catalysts, respectively, demonstrating the effect of CM in macropore formation.

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  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201912275

PtRu/C catalyst slurry preparation for large-scale decal transfer with high performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells
journal, January 2018

  • Choi, Mihwa; Kim, Jong Kwan; Kim, Jungsuk
  • RSC Advances, Vol. 8, Issue 63
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8ra07754a

Toward Efficient Carbon and Water Cycles: Emerging Opportunities with Single‐Site Catalysts Made of 3d Transition Metals
journal, November 2019

  • Wan, Gang; Zhang, Guanghui; Lin, Xiao‐Min
  • Advanced Materials, Vol. 32, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1002/adma.201905548

Bioinspired Transition‐Metal Complexes as Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, December 2018

  • Zhao, Ye‐Min; Yu, Guo‐Qiang; Wang, Fei‐Fei
  • Chemistry – A European Journal, Vol. 25, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1002/chem.201803764

In Situ and Operando Characterization of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
journal, August 2019


Breaking scaling relations for efficient CO 2 electrochemical reduction through dual-atom catalysts
journal, January 2020

  • Ouyang, Yixin; Shi, Li; Bai, Xiaowan
  • Chemical Science, Vol. 11, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9sc05236d

Rational Design of Spinel Cobalt Vanadate Oxide Co 2 VO 4 for Superior Electrocatalysis
journal, January 2020


Iron Single Atoms on Graphene as Nonprecious Metal Catalysts for High‐Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells
journal, March 2019


Molecular Design of Single‐Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, February 2020

  • Wan, Chengzhang; Duan, Xiangfeng; Huang, Yu
  • Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 10, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201903815

Engineering Local Coordination Environments of Atomically Dispersed and Heteroatom‐Coordinated Single Metal Site Electrocatalysts for Clean Energy‐Conversion
journal, November 2019

  • Zhu, Yuanzhi; Sokolowski, Joshua; Song, Xiancheng
  • Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 10, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201902844

A universal principle for a rational design of single-atom electrocatalysts
journal, April 2018


Nanoscale mapping of catalytic hotspots on Fe, N-modified HOPG by scanning electrochemical microscopy-atomic force microscopy
journal, January 2018

  • Kolagatla, Srikanth; Subramanian, Palaniappan; Schechter, Alex
  • Nanoscale, Vol. 10, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8nr00849c

Transition Metal‐Nitrogen‐Carbon Active Site for Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis: Beyond the Fascinations of TM‐N4
journal, November 2018


Atomic-level tuning of Co–N–C catalyst for high-performance electrochemical H2O2 production
journal, January 2020


Progress in the Development of Fe‐Based PGM‐Free Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, December 2018

  • Martinez, Ulises; Komini Babu, Siddharth; Holby, Edward F.
  • Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, Issue 31
  • DOI: 10.1002/adma.201806545

Hierarchically Porous M-N-C (M = Co and Fe) Single-Atom Electrocatalysts with Robust MN x Active Moieties Enable Enhanced ORR Performance
journal, August 2018

  • Zhu, Chengzhou; Shi, Qiurong; Xu, Bo Z.
  • Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 29
  • DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201801956

Tailoring FeN 4 Sites with Edge Enrichment for Boosted Oxygen Reduction Performance in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
journal, January 2019


Confinement Catalysis with 2D Materials for Energy Conversion
journal, July 2019


Engineering Single-Atom Cobalt Catalysts toward Improved Electrocatalysis
journal, March 2018


ORR Activity and Stability of Co-N/C Catalysts Based on Silicon Carbide Derived Carbon and the Impact of Loading in Acidic Media
journal, January 2018

  • Teppor, P.; Jäger, R.; Härk, E.
  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 165, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1149/2.0961814jes

Design strategies for developing non-precious metal based bi-functional catalysts for alkaline electrolyte based zinc–air batteries
journal, January 2019

  • Han, Chao; Li, Weijie; Liu, Hua-Kun
  • Materials Horizons, Vol. 6, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9mh00502a

Tailoring the Electrochemical Production of H 2 O 2 : Strategies for the Rational Design of High‐Performance Electrocatalysts
journal, September 2019


Understanding Degradation and Active Sites in Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrocatalysts
journal, January 2019

  • Chen, Ti; Takahashi, Shota; Fukushima, Yomei
  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 166, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1149/2.0781902jes

Theoretical research on the oxidation mechanism of doped carbon based catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction
journal, January 2019

  • Yang, Na; Peng, Lanlan; Li, Li
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 21, Issue 47
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9cp04691g

Carbon-Supported Single Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
journal, August 2018


Advanced Architectures and Relatives of Air Electrodes in Zn-Air Batteries
journal, January 2018


2D MOF induced accessible and exclusive Co single sites for an efficient O -silylation of alcohols with silanes
journal, January 2019

  • Wang, Xin; Li, Peng; Li, Zhijun
  • Chemical Communications, Vol. 55, Issue 46
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9cc01717h

Octahedral spinel electrocatalysts for alkaline fuel cells
journal, November 2019

  • Yang, Yao; Xiong, Yin; Holtz, Megan E.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 116, Issue 49
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1906570116

Identification of Catalytic Sites for Oxygen Reduction in Metal/Nitrogen‐Doped Carbons with Encapsulated Metal Nanoparticles
journal, November 2019


The Sub-Nanometer Scale as a New Focus in Nanoscience
journal, July 2018


FeN 4 Sites Embedded into Carbon Nanofiber Integrated with Electrochemically Exfoliated Graphene for Oxygen Evolution in Acidic Medium
journal, August 2018

  • Lei, Chaojun; Chen, Hengquan; Cao, Junhui
  • Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 26
  • DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201801912

Synthesis and Active Site Identification of Fe−N−C Single-Atom Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, November 2018


The Role of Supported Atomically Distributed Metal Species in Electrochemistry and How to Create Them
journal, May 2019

  • Ding, Yuxiao; Schlögl, Robert; Heumann, Saskia
  • ChemElectroChem, Vol. 6, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1002/celc.201900598

The Role of Polyaniline Molecular Structure in Producing High‐Performance Fe‐N‐C Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, July 2019


Characterization and evaluation of Fe–N–C electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction directly synthesized by reactive spray deposition technology
journal, October 2019

  • Poozhikunnath, Abhinav; Yu, Haoran; Bonville, Leonard
  • Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 55, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1007/s10853-019-04124-0

Recent advances in active sites identification and regulation of M-N/C electro-catalysts towards ORR
journal, March 2019


Lattice-strained metal–organic-framework arrays for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis
journal, January 2019


Direct transformation of bulk copper into copper single sites via emitting and trapping of atoms
journal, October 2018


An active oxygen reduction electrocatalyst derived from bio-inspired tannic acid-Fe assembly
journal, August 2018


Recent Progress on MOF-Derived Heteroatom-Doped Carbon-Based Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, December 2017


Ultranarrow Graphene Nanoribbons toward Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions
journal, November 2018


Iron Single Atoms on Graphene as Nonprecious Metal Catalysts for High‐Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells
journal, March 2019


Nanocarbon Catalysts: Recent Understanding Regarding the Active Sites
journal, January 2020


Metal Catalysts for Heterogeneous Catalysis: From Single Atoms to Nanoclusters and Nanoparticles
journal, April 2018


Enhanced oxygen reduction with single-atomic-site iron catalysts for a zinc-air battery and hydrogen-air fuel cell
journal, December 2018


Cascade anchoring strategy for general mass production of high-loading single-atomic metal-nitrogen catalysts
journal, March 2019


Dynamic oxygen adsorption on single-atomic Ruthenium catalyst with high performance for acidic oxygen evolution reaction
journal, October 2019


Robust ultraclean atomically thin membranes for atomic-resolution electron microscopy
journal, January 2020


Uncovering near-free platinum single-atom dynamics during electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction
journal, February 2020


A pyrolysis-free path toward superiorly catalytic nitrogen-coordinated single atom
journal, August 2019


Structure of Active Sites of Fe-N-C Nano-Catalysts for Alkaline Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
journal, November 2018

  • Kishi, Hirofumi; Sakamoto, Tomokazu; Asazawa, Koichiro
  • Nanomaterials, Vol. 8, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.3390/nano8120965

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