Insight into the metal-free electrocatalysis of heteroatom-doped carbon nanocages in competitive CO <sub>2</sub> reduction and H <sub>2</sub> evolution
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Abstract
Metal-free carbon-based catalysts exhibit diverse electrocatalytic performances in CO<sub>2</sub> reduction reaction (CO<sub>2</sub>RR), but the attributions and contributions of active sites are still confusing to date. Herein, the hierarchical carbon nanocages (hCNC) doped with different heteroatoms (B, N, P, S) are prepared to examine the impact of dopants on the competitive CO<sub>2</sub>RR and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The hCNC and P-doped hCNC show little CO<sub>2</sub>RR activity, B- and S-doped hCNC show weak CO<sub>2</sub>RR activity, while N-doped hCNC presents high CO<sub>2</sub>RR activity. The CO Faradaic efficiency (FE<sub>CO</sub>) of N-containing hCNC increases almost linearly with increasing the N content, even with the co-existing B or P. S- and SN-doped hCNC more facilitate the HER. 16 doping configurations are constructed, and up to 53 sites are examined for the electrochemical activities with a constant potential modelling method. The pyridinic-N(N*) is the best active site for CO<sub>2</sub>RR to CO, while CBO<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>-1(αC*), CBO<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>-2(γC*), NO-1(βC*), PO<sub>2</sub>H-3(αC*) and SO<sub>3</sub>H-3(δC*) are active for HER. The optimized FE<sub>CO</sub> achieves 83.6% for N-doped hCNC with 9.54 at.% nitrogen, and S-doped hCNC reaches ca. 30 mA·cm<sup>−2</sup> current density for HER. This study unveils the structure-performance correlation of heteroatom-doped hCNC, which is conducive to the rational design of advanced metal-free carbon-based catalysts.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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