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Title: An Iron-Decorated Carbon Aerogel for Rechargeable Flow and Flexible Zn–Air Batteries

Abstract

Mechanically stable and foldable air cathodes with exceptional oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activities are key components of wearable metal-air batteries. Herein, a directional freeze-casting and annealing approach is reported for the construction of a 3D honeycomb nanostructured, N,P-doped carbon aerogel incorporating in situ grown FeP/Fe2O3 nanoparticles as the cathode in a flexible Zn-air battery (ZAB). The aqueous rechargeable Zn-air batteries assembled with this carbon aerogel exhibit a remarkable specific capacity of 648 mAh g-1 at a current density of 20 mA cm-2 with a good long-term durability, outperforming those assembled with commercial Pt/C+RuO2 catalyst. Furthermore, such a foldable carbon aerogel with directional channels can serve as a freestanding air cathode for flexible solid-state Zn-air batteries without the use of carbon paper/cloth and additives, giving a specific capacity of 676 mAh g-1and an energy density of 517 Wh kg-1 at 5 mA cm-2 together with good cycling stability. This work offers a new strategy to design and synthesize highly effective bifunctional air cathodes to be applied in electrochemical energy devices.

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  1. South China Univ. of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou (China)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
  3. National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
  4. South China Univ. of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou (China); National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1712662
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1635727
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; AC02‐06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 32; Journal Issue: 32; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; Zn-air battery; carbon aerogel; flow & flexible

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Wu, Kunze, Zhang, Lei, Yuan, Yifei, Zhong, Linxin, Chen, Zhongxin, Chi, Xiao, Lu, Hao, Chen, Zehong, Zou, Ren, Li, Tingzhen, Jiang, Chengyu, Chen, Yongkang, Peng, Xinwen, and Lu, Jun. An Iron-Decorated Carbon Aerogel for Rechargeable Flow and Flexible Zn–Air Batteries. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1002/adma.202002292.
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Wu, Kunze, Zhang, Lei, Yuan, Yifei, Zhong, Linxin, Chen, Zhongxin, Chi, Xiao, Lu, Hao, Chen, Zehong, Zou, Ren, Li, Tingzhen, Jiang, Chengyu, Chen, Yongkang, Peng, Xinwen, & Lu, Jun. An Iron-Decorated Carbon Aerogel for Rechargeable Flow and Flexible Zn–Air Batteries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202002292
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Wu, Kunze, Zhang, Lei, Yuan, Yifei, Zhong, Linxin, Chen, Zhongxin, Chi, Xiao, Lu, Hao, Chen, Zehong, Zou, Ren, Li, Tingzhen, Jiang, Chengyu, Chen, Yongkang, Peng, Xinwen, and Lu, Jun. Wed . "An Iron-Decorated Carbon Aerogel for Rechargeable Flow and Flexible Zn–Air Batteries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202002292. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1712662.
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@article{osti_1712662,
title = {An Iron-Decorated Carbon Aerogel for Rechargeable Flow and Flexible Zn–Air Batteries},
author = {Wu, Kunze and Zhang, Lei and Yuan, Yifei and Zhong, Linxin and Chen, Zhongxin and Chi, Xiao and Lu, Hao and Chen, Zehong and Zou, Ren and Li, Tingzhen and Jiang, Chengyu and Chen, Yongkang and Peng, Xinwen and Lu, Jun},
abstractNote = {Mechanically stable and foldable air cathodes with exceptional oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activities are key components of wearable metal-air batteries. Herein, a directional freeze-casting and annealing approach is reported for the construction of a 3D honeycomb nanostructured, N,P-doped carbon aerogel incorporating in situ grown FeP/Fe2O3 nanoparticles as the cathode in a flexible Zn-air battery (ZAB). The aqueous rechargeable Zn-air batteries assembled with this carbon aerogel exhibit a remarkable specific capacity of 648 mAh g-1 at a current density of 20 mA cm-2 with a good long-term durability, outperforming those assembled with commercial Pt/C+RuO2 catalyst. Furthermore, such a foldable carbon aerogel with directional channels can serve as a freestanding air cathode for flexible solid-state Zn-air batteries without the use of carbon paper/cloth and additives, giving a specific capacity of 676 mAh g-1and an energy density of 517 Wh kg-1 at 5 mA cm-2 together with good cycling stability. This work offers a new strategy to design and synthesize highly effective bifunctional air cathodes to be applied in electrochemical energy devices.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.202002292},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
number = 32,
volume = 32,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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