Highly efficient and robust electrocatalysts have been in urgent demand for oxygen evolution reaction(OER).For this purpose,high-cost carbon materials,such as graphene and carbon nanotubes,have been used as supports to metal oxides to enhance their catalytic activity.We report here a new Co3O4-based catalyst with nitrogen-doped porous carbon material as the support,prepared by pyrolysis of porous polyurea(PU)with Co(NO3)2 immobilized on its surface.To this end,PU was first synthesized,without any additive,through a very simple one-step precipitation polymerization of toluene diisocyanate in a binary mixture of H2O-acetone at room temperature.By immersing PU in an aqueous solution of Co(NO3)2 at room temperature,a cobalt coordinated polymer composite,Co(NO3)2/PU,was obtained,which was heated at 500℃in air for 2 h to get a hybrid,Co3O4/NC,consisting of Co3O4 nanocrystals and sp2-hybridized N-doped carbon.Using this Co3O4/NC as a catalyst in OER,a current density of 10 mA·cm-2 was readily achieved with a low overpotential of 293 mV with a Tafel slope of 87 mV·dec-1,a high catalytic activity.This high performance was well retained after 1000 recycled uses,demonstrating its good durability.This work provides therefore a facile yet simple pathway to fabrication of a new transition metal oxides-based N-doped carbon catalyst for OER with high performance.

Shusheng Li;Rui Kuang;Xiangzheng Kong;Xiaoli Zhu;Xubao Jiang

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,University of Jinan,Jinan 250022,China;College of Traffic Civil Engineering,Shandong Jiaotong University,Jinan 250357,China

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[1]Shusheng Li;Rui Kuang;Xiangzheng Kong;Xiaoli Zhu;Xubao Jiang-.Immobilization of cobalt oxide nanoparticles on porous nitrogen-doped carbon as electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution)[J].中国化学工程学报（英文版）,2022(12):10-18

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