%0 Journal Article
	%A Bita Bayatsarmadi and  Shi-Zhang Qiao
	%D 2015
	%J International Journal of Chemical and Molecular Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 104, 2015
	%T Porous Carbon Nanoparticles Co-Doped with Nitrogen and Iron as an Efficient Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10002441
	%V 104
	%X Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) performance of
iron and nitrogen co-doped porous carbon nanoparticles (Fe-NPC)
with various physical and (electro) chemical properties have been
investigated. Fe-NPC nanoparticles are synthesized via a facile
soft-templating procedure by using Iron (III) chloride hexa-hydrate as
iron precursor and aminophenol-formaldehyde resin as both carbon
and nitrogen precursor. Fe-NPC nanoparticles shows high surface area
(443.83 m2g-1), high pore volume (0.52 m3g-1), narrow mesopore size
distribution (ca. 3.8 nm), high conductivity (IG/ID=1.04), high kinetic
limiting current (11.71 mAcm-2) and more positive onset potential
(-0.106 V) compared to metal-free NPC nanoparticles (-0.295V)
which make it high efficient ORR metal-free catalysts in alkaline
solution. This study may pave the way of feasibly designing iron and
nitrogen containing carbon materials (Fe-N-C) for highly efficient
oxygen reduction electro-catalysis.
	%P 1036 - 1042