Ni-Co hexacyanoferrate hollow nanoprism with CN vacancy for electrocatalytic benzyl alcohol oxidation

Chenghang Lv; Liang Chen; Jingjing Bai; Hongyu Ruo; Yanlong Pan; Shoudong Xu; Jiaqi Chen; Ding Zhang; Chunli Guo

doi:10.1039/d4cc01606h

Ni-Co hexacyanoferrate hollow nanoprism with CN vacancy for electrocatalytic benzyl alcohol oxidation

Chem Commun (Camb). 2024 Jun 4;60(46):5952-5955. doi: 10.1039/d4cc01606h.

Authors

Chenghang Lv^{1

2}, Liang Chen¹, Jingjing Bai¹, Hongyu Ruo¹, Yanlong Pan¹, Shoudong Xu³, Jiaqi Chen¹, Ding Zhang⁴, Chunli Guo²

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, P. R. China. [email protected].
² College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, P. R. China. [email protected].
³ College of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, P. R. China.
⁴ School of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, P. R. China.

PMID: 38764428
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc01606h

Abstract

An innovative method to improve the oxidation efficiency of benzyl alcohol utilizes Ni-Co hexacyanoferrate hollow nanoprisms. Synthesized via a gentle self-sacrificial template method, this catalyst exhibits substantial catalytic activity and selectivity towards benzyl alcohol oxidation, facilitated by the strategic incorporation of Co to modulate CN vacancy density. Impressively, it achieves a current density of 10 mA cm^-2 at 1.33 V and a remarkable 98% efficiency in benzyl alcohol conversion at 1.4 V.