Selenium-Coupled Reduced Graphene Oxide as Single-Atom Site Catalyst for Direct Four-Electron Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Shubhadeep Pal; Sumit Bawari; Thazhe Veettil Vineesh; Naresh Shyaga; Tharangattu N. Narayanan

doi:10.1021/acsaem.9b00364

Selenium-Coupled Reduced Graphene Oxide as Single-Atom Site Catalyst for Direct Four-Electron Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Shubhadeep Pal
, Sumit Bawari
, Thazhe Veettil Vineesh
, Naresh Shyaga
, Tharangattu N. Narayanan

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram
University of Hyderabad

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Abstract

A single-atom site catalyst for direct four electron oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is identified where selenium (ultrasmall amount of Se, 1 at. %) is the active center that couples reduced graphene oxide (rGO) sheets. This metal-free catalyst is found to be undergoing ORR through the direct four-electron pathway in alkaline medium, similar to platinum, whereas rGO prefers a two-electron path, and the experimental observation is correlated with theoretical study. The role of Se-like elements in graphene, which have similar electronegativity as carbon, is unraveled with a detailed density functional theory-based analyses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3624-3632
Number of pages	9
Journal	ACS Applied Energy Materials
Volume	2
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b00364
State	Published - 28 May 2019
Externally published	Yes

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direct four-electron transfer, density functional theory,
oxygen reduction reaction
selenium doped graphene
single-atom site catalyst

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