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RARE METALS Vol. 30, Spec. Issue, Mar 2011, p. 68 DOI: 10.1007/s12598-011-0240-6 Pyrolyzed carbon-supported Co-N electrocatalysts using 4 hexamethylene-tetramine as nitrogen source a,b b b b LI Feng , PATTRICK Gary , MOUTLOALI Richard , and VAN DER LINGEN Elma a School of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China b Advanced Materials Division, MINTEK, Randburg 2194, Johannesburg, South Africa Received 29 September 2010; received in revised form 29 December 2010; accepted 10 January 2011 © The Nonferrous Metals Society of China and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 Abstract Hexamethylenetetramine was used as nitrogen resource to prepare platinum-free Fe-N and Co-N electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reac- tion (ORR). X-ray diffraction measurement shows that trace Co ions are reduced to Co metal. Cyclic voltammogram experiment shows that the ORR peak potential appears at 200 mV (vs. SCE) in oxygen-saturated acidic media. The Koutecky-Levich analysis indicates that the ORR follows the first-order kinetic reaction and the ORR proceeds mainly via the four-electron reduction. Keywords: fuel cells; hexamethylenetetramine; oxygen reduction reaction 1. Introduction trate (Co loading percentage of 5 wt.% as the final catalyst) was dissolved in ethanol, followed by the addition of In the past decades, enormous efforts have been paid to HMTA as the N source. The obtained solution was mixed the commercialisation of proton exchange membrane (PEM) with carbon black Vulcan XC72 under ultrasonication for 10 fuel ce