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Volume 7, Issue 6 (Suppl) J Nanomed Nanotechnol
ISSN: 2157-7439 JNMNT, an open access journal Nanotek 2016
December 05-07, 2016
December 05-07, 2016 Phoenix, USA
13th International Conference on
Nanotek & Expo
Fumiaki Matuoka et al., J Nanomed Nanotechnol 2016, 7:6 (Suppl)
Nitrogen doped double gyroidal mesoporous carbon material for oxygen reduction reaction synthesized
from pyridine containing precursor, hydroxymethyl-3-hydroxylpyridine
Fumiaki Matuoka, Qi Zhang and Ulrich Wiesner
Cornell University, USA
The Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) is a key reaction for fuel cells. Nitrogen-doped carbon materials show high electro-
catalytic performance for the ORR. They are thus among the most promising candidates as alternatives to high-cost Pt catalysts
for the cathode of fuel cells. One of the active sites of the nitrogen-doped carbon materials for the ORR was was pyridinic nitrogen.
Hence, nitrogen-doped carbon materials containing high concentration of pyridinic nitrogen could be a promising cathode for
ORR. In our recent efforts, nitrogen-doped double gyroidal mesoporous carbon material (N-DGMC) was synthesized from the
structure-directing tri-block terpolymer poly(isoprene)-block-poly(styrene)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) (ISO) with pyridine
containing precursor, hydroxymethyl-3-hydroxyl pyridine, as a nitrogen source and phenol-formaldehyde resol as a carbon source.
The total nitrogen contents and relative concentration of nitrogen species were obtained from XPS measurements indicating higher
concentration of pyridinic nitrogen than other carbon materials in which nitrogen are doped by an ammonia treatment method.
Furthermore, N-DGMC has double gyroidal structure; therefore, it has a large surface area as well as lots of pores, which enable
N-DGMC to have high catalytic performance.
Biography
Fumiaki Matuoka has completed his MS from Osaka University School of Engineering Science. He is a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, Department of Material
Science Engineering. His research interest includes “Synthesizing double gyroidal mesoporous template for meta-materials”.