Efficient oxygen reduction by nanocomposites of heterometallic carbide and nitrogen-enriched carbon derived from the cobalt-encapsulated indium-MOF

Aiguo Kong; Qipu Lin; Chengyu Mao; Xianhui Bu; Pingyun Feng

doi:10.1039/c4cc06867j

Efficient oxygen reduction by nanocomposites of heterometallic carbide and nitrogen-enriched carbon derived from the cobalt-encapsulated indium-MOF

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Dec 21;50(98):15619-22. doi: 10.1039/c4cc06867j. Epub 2014 Oct 31.

Authors

Aiguo Kong¹, Qipu Lin, Chengyu Mao, Xianhui Bu, Pingyun Feng

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA. pingyun.feng@ucr.edu.

PMID: 25360456
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc06867j

Abstract

By one-step pyrolysis of an indium-MOF with entrapped cobalt dimers in the presence of melamine, heterometallic carbide nanoparticles (Co3InC0.75) embedded in nitrogen-enriched carbon have been prepared and found to exhibit efficient electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction reaction with high durability and methanol-tolerance properties.