ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025
Molecular Strain Accelerates Electron Transfer for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction.
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- Carbon Nanotubes as Multifunctional Supports for Phthalocyanine-Based Electrocatalysts: Advancing Sustainable Energy Conversion and Environmental Applications.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Concave and Convex Molecular Curvature Modulates Spatial Electronic Environments for Controlled Electrocatalysis.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Lattice strain-mediated MoSeNature communications · 2026Article
- Spin-State Engineering of Iron Phthalocyanine D-Orbitals via Atomic Fe-NAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Strain-optimized copper dual-atom sites for selective electroreduction of carbon dioxide to ethylene.Science advances · 2025Article
- Deformed One-Dimensional Covalent Organic Polymers for Enhanced CO Electroreduction to Methanol.ACS nano · 2025Article
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Abstract
Fe-N-C materials are emerging catalysts for replacing precious platinum in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for renewable energy conversion. However, their potential is hindered by sluggish ORR kinetics, leading to a high overpotential and impeding efficient energy conversion. Using iron phthalocyanine (FePc) as a model catalyst, we elucidate how the local strain can enhance the ORR performance of Fe-N-Cs. We use density functional theory to predict the reaction mechanism for the four-electron reduction of oxygen to water. Several key differences between the reaction mechanisms for curved and flat FePc suggest that molecular strain accelerates the reductive desorption of *OH by decreasing the energy barrier by ∼60 meV. Our theoretical predictions are substantiated by experimental validation; we find that strained FePc on single-walled carbon nanotubes attains a half-wave potential (
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