Carbon-Nanotube-Bridging Strategy for Integrating Single Fe Atoms and NiCo Nanoparticles in a Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalyst toward High-Efficiency and Long-Life Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries

Ding, Shichao; He, Lin; Fang, Lingzhe; Zhu, Yuanzhi; Li, Tao; Lyu, Zhaoyuan; Du, Dan; Lin, Yuehe; Li, Jin‐Cheng

doi:10.1002/aenm.202202984

Carbon-Nanotube-Bridging Strategy for Integrating Single Fe Atoms and NiCo Nanoparticles in a Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalyst toward High-Efficiency and Long-Life Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries

Journal Article · Sun Nov 06 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Advanced Energy Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202202984· OSTI ID:2405000

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Washington State University, Pullman, WA (United States)
Kunming University of Science and Technology (China)
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (United States)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (United States)

The development of highly efficient and robust bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction (ORR) and evolution reactions (OER) is the key issue for realizing high-performance and long-life rechargeable zinc–air batteries (ZABs). However, it is still a great challenge to integrate independent ORR and OER sites in a catalyst with high activity. Here, a carbon nanotube-bridging strategy is proposed to synthesize such a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst enriched with highly active single-atom Fe sites for the ORR and high-performance nanosized NiCo hydroxides for the OER. Consequently, the developed catalyst shows a small overpotential difference of 0.686 V. When used as an oxygen electrode catalyst, the corresponding ZAB exhibits a large power density of 219.5 mW cm^₋2, a small charge–discharge voltage gap of 0.72 V at 10 mA cm^₋2, and outstanding discharge–charge durability without attenuation after more than 700 cycles. This work proposes a new idea to realize multifunctional catalysts and drives the practical application of ZABs.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China; Applied Basic Research Program of Yunnan Province

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 2405000

Journal Information:: Advanced Energy Materials, Journal Name: Advanced Energy Materials Journal Issue: 48 Vol. 12; ISSN 1614-6832

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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