Heteroatom (N, P, B) Doped Hierarchical Porous Carbons from Coal Tar Pitch with High Specific Surface Area for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Fang Dong, Jinli Qiao* College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, 2999 Ren’min North Road, Shanghai 201620, China. *qiaojl@dhu.edu.cn In the past few decades, fuel cells, as a kind of clean and efficient energy sources, which is considered to be the most promising solution to the increasingly serious energy crisis of energy conversion equipment, has attracted significant attention.1 Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells plays a decisive role in determination of performance, and electrocatalysts with high-performance ORR are essential for practical applications. Up to now, the platinum or its alloyed nanoparticles have been used to catalyze the sluggish ORR, however, their high cost as well as the limited natural abundance hinder the development and commercialization of the interrelated technologies.2 The development of new ORR catalysts free of noble metals is thus the next challenge for the long-term viability and sustainability of fuel cells. Due to the introduction of porous structure, porous carbon materials with high specific surface area, porous rich and aperture can be adjusted, which has the advantages of high chemical stability and good electrical conductivity, and this has been widely used in the aspects such as catalysis, adsorption and electrochemical energy storage.3 Recent years witnessed the dramatic interest in using nitrogen-doped porous carbon as one of the promising ORR catalysts. Besides N, other heteroatoms have also been introduced into carbon materials and they also show enhanced catalytic activity for ORR.4 In this work, we choose N, P and B as doped heteroatoms to fabricate the hierarchical porous carbons derived from coal tar pitch. The catalytic ORR activities of the heteroatom (N, P, B) doped hierarchical porous carbons from coal tar pitch are studied and the results show that heteroatom (N, P, B) doped with hierarchical porous carbon from coal tar pitch has high specific surface area and high catalytic activity for ORR. References 1 M.L. Xiao, J.B. Zhu, L.G. Feng, C.P. Liu, W. Xing, Advanced Materials, 27, 2521 (2015). 2 M. Sahoo, S. Ramaprabhu, Energy, 119, 1075 (2017). 3 L. Osmieri, R. Escudero-Cid, A.H.A. Monteverde Videla, P. Ocón, S. Specchia, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 201, 253 (2017). 4 M.J. Wu, Q.W. Tang, F. Dong, Z.Y. Bai, L. Zhang, J.L. Qiao, Journal of Catalysis, 352 , 208 (2017).