An Oxygen Vacancy-rich Semiconductor Supported Bifunctional Catalyst for Efficient and Stable Zinc-Air Battery
Abstract
Abstract The highly oxidative operating conditions of rechargeable zinc–air batteries causes significant carbon‐support corrosion of bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts. Here, a new strategy for the catalyst support design focusing on oxygen vacancy (OV)‐rich, low‐bandgap semiconductor is proposed. The OVs promote the electrical conductivity of the oxide support, and at the same time offer a strong metal–support interaction (SMSI), which enables the catalysts to have small metal size, high catalytic activity, and high stability. The strategy is demonstrated by successfully synthesizing ultrafine Co‐metal‐decorated 3D ordered macroporous titanium oxynitride (3DOM‐Co@TiO x N y ). The 3DOM‐Co@TiO x N y catalyst exhibits comparable activities for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions, but much higher cycling stability than noble metals in alkaline conditions. The zinc–air battery using this catalyst delivers an excellent stability with less than 1% energy efficiency loss over 900 charge–discharge cycles at 20 mA cm −2 . The high stability is attributed to the strong SMSI between Co and 3DOM‐TiO x N y which is verified by density functional theory calculations. This work sheds light on using OV‐rich semiconductors as a promising support to design efficient and durable nonprecious electrocatalysts.
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- Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Henan Normal Univ., Xinxiang (China)
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- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1507102
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1485165
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-211550-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 31; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; oxygen vacancy; metal-support interaction; oxygen evolution reaction; bifunctional catalyst; zinc-air battery
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Liu, Guihua, Su, Dong, Li, Jingde, Fu, Jing, Jiang, Gaopeng, Lui, Gregory, Luo, Dan, Deng, Ya-Ping, Zhang, Jing, Cano, Zachary P., Yu, Aiping, Bai, Zhengyu, Yang, Lin, and Chen, Zhongwei. An Oxygen Vacancy-rich Semiconductor Supported Bifunctional Catalyst for Efficient and Stable Zinc-Air Battery. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201806761.
Liu, Guihua, Su, Dong, Li, Jingde, Fu, Jing, Jiang, Gaopeng, Lui, Gregory, Luo, Dan, Deng, Ya-Ping, Zhang, Jing, Cano, Zachary P., Yu, Aiping, Bai, Zhengyu, Yang, Lin, & Chen, Zhongwei. An Oxygen Vacancy-rich Semiconductor Supported Bifunctional Catalyst for Efficient and Stable Zinc-Air Battery. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201806761
Liu, Guihua, Su, Dong, Li, Jingde, Fu, Jing, Jiang, Gaopeng, Lui, Gregory, Luo, Dan, Deng, Ya-Ping, Zhang, Jing, Cano, Zachary P., Yu, Aiping, Bai, Zhengyu, Yang, Lin, and Chen, Zhongwei. Sun .
"An Oxygen Vacancy-rich Semiconductor Supported Bifunctional Catalyst for Efficient and Stable Zinc-Air Battery". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201806761. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1507102.
@article{osti_1507102,
title = {An Oxygen Vacancy-rich Semiconductor Supported Bifunctional Catalyst for Efficient and Stable Zinc-Air Battery},
author = {Liu, Guihua and Su, Dong and Li, Jingde and Fu, Jing and Jiang, Gaopeng and Lui, Gregory and Luo, Dan and Deng, Ya-Ping and Zhang, Jing and Cano, Zachary P. and Yu, Aiping and Bai, Zhengyu and Yang, Lin and Chen, Zhongwei},
abstractNote = {Abstract The highly oxidative operating conditions of rechargeable zinc–air batteries causes significant carbon‐support corrosion of bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts. Here, a new strategy for the catalyst support design focusing on oxygen vacancy (OV)‐rich, low‐bandgap semiconductor is proposed. The OVs promote the electrical conductivity of the oxide support, and at the same time offer a strong metal–support interaction (SMSI), which enables the catalysts to have small metal size, high catalytic activity, and high stability. The strategy is demonstrated by successfully synthesizing ultrafine Co‐metal‐decorated 3D ordered macroporous titanium oxynitride (3DOM‐Co@TiO x N y ). The 3DOM‐Co@TiO x N y catalyst exhibits comparable activities for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions, but much higher cycling stability than noble metals in alkaline conditions. The zinc–air battery using this catalyst delivers an excellent stability with less than 1% energy efficiency loss over 900 charge–discharge cycles at 20 mA cm −2 . The high stability is attributed to the strong SMSI between Co and 3DOM‐TiO x N y which is verified by density functional theory calculations. This work sheds light on using OV‐rich semiconductors as a promising support to design efficient and durable nonprecious electrocatalysts.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201806761},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
number = 6,
volume = 31,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Sun Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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