Remarkable electrochemical properties of electrochemically reduced graphene oxide towards oxygen reduction reaction are caused by residual metal-based impurities

Lu Wang; Chun Kiang Chua; Bahareh Khezri; Richard D. Webster; Martin Pumera

doi:10.1016/j.elecom.2015.10.020

Remarkable electrochemical properties of electrochemically reduced graphene oxide towards oxygen reduction reaction are caused by residual metal-based impurities

Lu Wang, Chun Kiang Chua, Bahareh Khezri, Richard D. Webster, Martin Pumera

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Abstract

Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is one of the most important electrochemical reactions in the field of energy storage. Remarkable catalytic properties towards ORR at "metal-free" electrochemically reduced graphene oxide (ErGO) were previously reported. We demonstrate here that the remarkable enhancement towards ORR of a "metal-free" ErGO is caused by residual metallic impurities instead of ErGO itself.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17-20
Number of pages	4
Journal	Electrochemistry Communications
Volume	62
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2015.10.020
Publication status	Published - 2016 Jan 1

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M.P. acknowledges a Tier 2 grant ( MOE2013-T2-1-056 ; ARC 35/13) from the Ministry of Education, Singapore .

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