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In Situ Exfoliated, Edge‐Rich, Oxygen‐Functionalized Graphene from Carbon Fibers for Oxygen Electrocatalysis

Hunan University · State Key Laboratory of Chemobiosensing and Chemometrics · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

Catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in fuel cells or metal-air batteries. These electrocatalysts are usually deposited on a 3D conductive support (e.g., carbon paper or carbon cloth (CC)) to facilitate mass and electron transport. For practical applications, it is desirable to create in situ catalysts on the carbon fiber support to simplify the fabrication process for catalytic electrodes. In this study, the first example of in situ exfoliated, edge-rich, oxygen-functionalized graphene on the surface of carbon fibers using Ar plasma treatment is successfully prepared. Compared to pristine CC, the plasma-etched carbon cloth (P-CC) has a higher specific surface…

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