Physicochemical Properties of Carbonized Bacterial Cellulose and Its Application in Methanol Electrocatalysis

doi:10.11901/1005.3093.2020.219

Chinese Journal of Materials Research

2021, Vol. 35

Issue (4): 259-270 DOI: 10.11901/1005.3093.2020.219

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Physicochemical Properties of Carbonized Bacterial Cellulose and Its Application in Methanol Electrocatalysis

TANG Kaiyuan¹, HUANG Yang²(

), HUANG Xiangzhou², GE Ying², LI Pinting², YUAN Fanshu¹, ZHANG Weiwei¹, SUN Dongping¹(

)

^1.School of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
^2.School of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China

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TANG Kaiyuan, HUANG Yang, HUANG Xiangzhou, GE Ying, LI Pinting, YUAN Fanshu, ZHANG Weiwei, SUN Dongping. Physicochemical Properties of Carbonized Bacterial Cellulose and Its Application in Methanol Electrocatalysis. Chinese Journal of Materials Research, 2021, 35(4): 259-270.

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The bacterial cellulose (BC) cultured and purified in the laboratory were oven-dried and freeze-dried respectively and then was carbonized at high temperature. The results show that the oven-dried BC lost the nanofiber structure, and the freeze-drying technology could prevents the nanofibers from stacking and keeps the BC three-dimensional structure. The physicochemical properties such as micromorphology, elemental composition, crystal structure of the carbonized bacterial cellulose (CBC) and thier evolution process with carbonization temperature were systematically investigated. Through Pt-deposition on the conductive carrier of CBC carbon nanofibers, thus an electrode of composite materials could be acquired, which then were used for methanol electrocatalysis. Finally the relationship between the electrochemical performance of CBC-based composite materials and its micro-nano structure and chemical composition was highlighted.

Key words: organic polymer materials carbonized bacterial cellulose physicochemical properties methanol electrocatalysis internal relationship

Received: 07 June 2020

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Fund: National Natural Science Foundation of China(51702162)

About author: HUANG Yang, Tel: (025)85428301, E-mail: yanghuang@njfu.edu.cn
SUN Dongping, Tel: (025)84315079, E-mail: hysdp@mail.njust.edu.cn

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Fig.1 SEM images of (a, b) BC aerogels dried by freeze drying，(c) natural CBC aerogels and (d) pressed BC derived CBC aerogels

Fig.2 TEM images of (a) dispersed BC hydrogel, (b) freeze-dried BC derived CBC, (c, d) oven-dried BC derived CBC

Fig.3 Thermogravimetric analysis curve of BC

Fig.4 XRD patterns of BC and CBC samples

Fig.5 N₂ isotherms adsorption/desorption curves (a) and pore size distributions of CBC samples (b)

Table 1 Specific surface area and pore structure of CBC samples

Fig.6 Pore size distribution of CBC-800-P

Fig.7 Raman spectra of CBC samples

Table 2 D peak half-height width and I_D/I_G of CBC samples

Fig.8 Electrical conductivity of CBC materials carbonized at 600~1000℃

Fig.9 HRTEM photographs of CBC samples carbonized at (a) 600℃, (b) 800℃ and (c) 1000℃ (with graphite structure marked) and (d) commercially available CNTs

Fig.10 (a) Wide XPS spectra of CBC materials carbonized at 600~1000℃ and C 1s splitting peak diagram of CBC materials carbonized at (b) 600℃, (c) 800℃, (d) 1000℃

Table 3 O/C atomic ratio and the binding energy of each peak of the CBC materials carbonized at 600~1000℃ (the ratio of the area of each peak to the C-C peak in the brackets)

Fig.11 TEM images of Pt-CBC-800 at different magnifications (a, b, d) and Pt-Vulcan (c), and the lattice spacing measured by Gatan Digital Micrograph software (e)

Fig.12 XRD patterns of Pt-CBC composites and Pt-Vulcan

Fig.13 CV curves of Pt-CBC composite and Pt-Vulcan in (a) 0.5 mol/L H₂SO₄ and (b) 0.5 mol/L H₂SO₄+1.0 mol/L CH₃OH solution

Table 4 CV data of catalytic material samples

Fig.14 Chronoamperometric curves of Pt-CBC samples in 0.5 mol/L H₂SO₄+1.0 mol/L CH₃OH

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