An Oxygen Vacancy-rich Semiconductor Supported Bifunctional Catalyst for Efficient and Stable Zinc-Air Battery

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

doi:10.1002/adma.201806761

Title: An Oxygen Vacancy-rich Semiconductor Supported Bifunctional Catalyst for Efficient and Stable Zinc-Air Battery

Journal Article · 09 December 2018 · Advanced Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201806761 · OSTI ID:1507102

Liu, Guihua ^[1];

^[2]; Li, Jingde ^[1]; Fu, Jing ^[1]; Jiang, Gaopeng ^[1]; Lui, Gregory ^[1]; Luo, Dan ^[1]; Deng, Ya-Ping ^[1]; Zhang, Jing ^[1]; Cano, Zachary P. ^[1]; Yu, Aiping ^[1]; Bai, Zhengyu ^[3]; Yang, Lin ^[3]; Chen, Zhongwei ^[1]

Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Henan Normal Univ., Xinxiang (China)

The highly oxidative operating condition of rechargeable zinc-air batteries causes significant carbon-support corrosion of bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts. In this work, we propose a new strategy for the catalyst support design focusing on OV-rich, low-bandgap semiconductor. 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 small metal size, high catalytic activity, and high stability. The strategy is demonstrated by successfully synthesizing ultrafine Co metal decorated three-dimensionally ordered macroporous titanium oxynitride (3DOM-Co@TiO_xN_y). The 3DOM-Co@TiO_xN_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_xN_y which verified by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. These results shed light on using OV-rich semiconductors as a promising support to design efficient and durable non-precious electrocatalysts.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1507102

Report Number(s):: BNL--211550-2019-JAAM

Journal Information:: Advanced Materials, Journal Name: Advanced Materials Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 31; ISSN 0935-9648

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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