Experimentally validating sabatier plot by molecular level microenvironment customization for oxygen electroreduction

Bingyu Huang, Qiao Gu, Xiannong Tang, Dirk Lützenkirchen-Hecht, Kai Yuan () and Yiwang Chen ()
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Bingyu Huang: Nanchang University
Qiao Gu: Nanchang University
Xiannong Tang: Nanchang University
Dirk Lützenkirchen-Hecht: Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Gauss-Str. 20
Kai Yuan: Nanchang University
Yiwang Chen: Nanchang University

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Abstract Microenvironmental modifications on metal sites are crucial to tune oxygen reduction catalytic behavior and decrypt intrinsic mechanism, whereas the stochastic properties of traditional pyrolyzed single-atom catalysts induce vague recognition on structure-reactivity relations. Herein, we report a theoretical descriptor relying on binding energies of oxygen adsorbates and directly associating the derived Sabatier volcano plot with calculated overpotential to forecast catalytic efficiency of cobalt porphyrin. This Sabatier volcano plot instructs that electron-withdrawing substituents mitigate the over-strong *OH intermediate adsorption by virtue of the decreased proportion of electrons in bonding orbital. To experimentally validate this speculation, we implement a secondary sphere microenvironment customization strategy on cobalt porphyrin-based polymer nanocomposite analogs. Systematic X-ray spectroscopic and in situ electrochemical characterizations capture the pronounced accessible active site density and the fast interfacial/outward charge migration kinetics contributions for the optimal carboxyl group-substituted catalyst. This work offers ample strategies for designing single-atom catalysts with well-managed microenvironment under the guidance of Sabatier volcano map.

Date: 2024
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