Noble Metal-free catalysts attracted much attention as promising candidates for Pt-based catalyst replacement to advance applications related to oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), which is critical for large-scale renewable energy storage and conversion. Herein, this work focused on a synthesis of noble metal-free ORR electrocatalysts consisting of porous N-rich carbon/MXene, which was obtained using very conductive and reactive Ti3C2 MXene and polypyrrole (PPy) as a C and N source. The electrocatalyst exhibited excellent electrocatalytic activity and stability with an onset and a half-wave potentials equal to 0.85 and 0.71 V, respectively. Results obtained in this work demonstrate how to design efficient noble metal-free ORR electrocatalysts applicable to other chemical systems.
The corrosion behavior of zinc-rich epoxy primers or paints (ZRPs) with different conducting polyaniline-grafted graphene (PANI/Gr) contents was investigated. Conductivity of the formed PANI/Gr nanosheets was significantly improved by employing the Gr as the inner template to synthesize the PANI. The protective properties and electrochemical behavior of coatings with artificial defects were investigated by monitoring the free corrosion potential versus time and by using localized electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (LEIS). A synergetic enhancement of the physical barrier role of the coating and the zinc sacrificial cathodic protection was achieved in the case of ZRP including PANI/Gr nanosheets. In addition, the ZRP mixed with the PANI/Gr at a content of 0.6% exhibited the best anticorrosion performance across the range of investigated PANI/Gr contents.
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