Electrochemical oxygen reduced reaction(ORR)is a critical element in clean energy development.Despite efforts to enhance gas transfer to the reaction interface,the low solubility of O_(2)molecules and slow diffusion r...Electrochemical oxygen reduced reaction(ORR)is a critical element in clean energy development.Despite efforts to enhance gas transfer to the reaction interface,the low solubility of O_(2)molecules and slow diffusion rate in liquid electrolyte is still a significant challenge.Herein,we design an artificial outer membrane on microalgal cells,which consists of a carbon dots/bilirubin oxidase(CDs/BOD)ORR catalyst layer and a L-cystine/Au nanoporous O_(2)supply layer.O_(2)generated by photosynthesis from microalgal cells then can be directly transported to the CDs/BOD catalytic interfaces,overcoming the sluggish gas transfer in the electrolyte.Thus,the cathode constructed by the fabricated microalgal cells realizes an ORR current density of 655.2μA/cm^(2) with fast ORR kinetics,which is 2.68 times higher than that of a BOD cathode fed with pure O_(2).A membrane-less glucose/O_(2)biofuel cell is further developed using the hybrid artificial cells as the cathode,and the power density is 2.39 times higher than that of a BOD cathode biofuel cell in O_(2)saturated solution.This biomimetic design supplies O_(2)directly to the carbon dots/BOD catalyst layer from the microalgae membrane through a nanoporous L-cys/Au layer,providing an alternative solution for the transfer barrier of O_(2)in the electrolyte.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21834004,52100014).
文摘Electrochemical oxygen reduced reaction(ORR)is a critical element in clean energy development.Despite efforts to enhance gas transfer to the reaction interface,the low solubility of O_(2)molecules and slow diffusion rate in liquid electrolyte is still a significant challenge.Herein,we design an artificial outer membrane on microalgal cells,which consists of a carbon dots/bilirubin oxidase(CDs/BOD)ORR catalyst layer and a L-cystine/Au nanoporous O_(2)supply layer.O_(2)generated by photosynthesis from microalgal cells then can be directly transported to the CDs/BOD catalytic interfaces,overcoming the sluggish gas transfer in the electrolyte.Thus,the cathode constructed by the fabricated microalgal cells realizes an ORR current density of 655.2μA/cm^(2) with fast ORR kinetics,which is 2.68 times higher than that of a BOD cathode fed with pure O_(2).A membrane-less glucose/O_(2)biofuel cell is further developed using the hybrid artificial cells as the cathode,and the power density is 2.39 times higher than that of a BOD cathode biofuel cell in O_(2)saturated solution.This biomimetic design supplies O_(2)directly to the carbon dots/BOD catalyst layer from the microalgae membrane through a nanoporous L-cys/Au layer,providing an alternative solution for the transfer barrier of O_(2)in the electrolyte.
