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Iron phthalocyanine with coordination induced electronic localization to boost oxygen reduction reaction.

Nature communications (2020-08-21)
Kejun Chen, Kang Liu, Pengda An, Huangjingwei Li, Yiyang Lin, Junhua Hu, Chuankun Jia, Junwei Fu, Hongmei Li, Hui Liu, Zhang Lin, Wenzhang Li, Jiahang Li, Ying-Rui Lu, Ting-Shan Chan, Ning Zhang, Min Liu
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG

Iron phthalocyanine (FePc) is a promising non-precious catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Unfortunately, FePc with plane-symmetric FeN4 site usually exhibits an unsatisfactory ORR activity due to its poor O2 adsorption and activation. Here, we report an axial Fe-O coordination induced electronic localization strategy to improve its O2 adsorption, activation and thus the ORR performance. Theoretical calculations indicate that the Fe-O coordination evokes the electronic localization among the axial direction of O-FeN4 sites to enhance O2 adsorption and activation. To realize this speculation, FePc is coordinated with an oxidized carbon. Synchrotron X-ray absorption and Mössbauer spectra validate Fe-O coordination between FePc and carbon. The obtained catalyst exhibits fast kinetics for O2 adsorption and activation with an ultralow Tafel slope of 27.5 mV dec-1 and a remarkable half-wave potential of 0.90 V. This work offers a new strategy to regulate catalytic sites for better performance.