Coupling FeNi alloys and hollow nitrogen-enriched carbon frameworks leads to high-performance oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable zinc–air batteries
Abstract
A dual-template strategy for facile preparation of a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst for high-performance rechargeable zinc–air batteries has been reported. Coupling FeNi alloys with hollow nitrogen-doped carbon frameworks concludes in exceptionally high electrocatalytic oxygen reduction and evolution activities. In 1 M KOH, the resulting new material exhibits a superior oxygen evolution activity with a low overpotential of 250 mV to deliver 10 mA cm-2 current density, at which the obtained oxygen reduction performance is also comparable to that of commercial Pt/C and the half-wave potential reaches as high as 0.87 V. As a result, the bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis performance thus obtained (0.61 V, 1 M KOH) ranks among the best of non-precious oxygen electrocatalysts. Using this new catalyst as an air electrode, the as-prepared rechargeable Zn–air battery shows a high current density of 215 mA cm-2 at a voltage of 1.0 V, large peak power density (310 mW cm-2), high potential efficiency (64.7% at 10 mA cm-2) and prolonged operation durability. This method provides a means to control the surface features, thereby tuning the catalytic properties of the material, and may open up new possibilities for the rational design and synthesis of new materials for electrochemical applications.
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- Suzhou Research Inst. of Lanzhou Inst. of Chemical Physics, Lanzhou (China); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
- Suzhou Research Inst. of Lanzhou Inst. of Chemical Physics, Lanzhou (China)
- Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1524860
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- OSTI ID: 1471431
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Sustainable Energy & Fuels
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2398-4902
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE
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Wu, Haihong, Zeng, Min, Li, Zhiyun, Zhu, Xiang, Tian, Chengcheng, Xia, Chungu, He, Lin, and Dai, Sheng. Coupling FeNi alloys and hollow nitrogen-enriched carbon frameworks leads to high-performance oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable zinc–air batteries. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1039/c8se00362a.
Wu, Haihong, Zeng, Min, Li, Zhiyun, Zhu, Xiang, Tian, Chengcheng, Xia, Chungu, He, Lin, & Dai, Sheng. Coupling FeNi alloys and hollow nitrogen-enriched carbon frameworks leads to high-performance oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable zinc–air batteries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8se00362a
Wu, Haihong, Zeng, Min, Li, Zhiyun, Zhu, Xiang, Tian, Chengcheng, Xia, Chungu, He, Lin, and Dai, Sheng. Fri .
"Coupling FeNi alloys and hollow nitrogen-enriched carbon frameworks leads to high-performance oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable zinc–air batteries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8se00362a. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1524860.
@article{osti_1524860,
title = {Coupling FeNi alloys and hollow nitrogen-enriched carbon frameworks leads to high-performance oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable zinc–air batteries},
author = {Wu, Haihong and Zeng, Min and Li, Zhiyun and Zhu, Xiang and Tian, Chengcheng and Xia, Chungu and He, Lin and Dai, Sheng},
abstractNote = {A dual-template strategy for facile preparation of a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst for high-performance rechargeable zinc–air batteries has been reported. Coupling FeNi alloys with hollow nitrogen-doped carbon frameworks concludes in exceptionally high electrocatalytic oxygen reduction and evolution activities. In 1 M KOH, the resulting new material exhibits a superior oxygen evolution activity with a low overpotential of 250 mV to deliver 10 mA cm-2 current density, at which the obtained oxygen reduction performance is also comparable to that of commercial Pt/C and the half-wave potential reaches as high as 0.87 V. As a result, the bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis performance thus obtained (0.61 V, 1 M KOH) ranks among the best of non-precious oxygen electrocatalysts. Using this new catalyst as an air electrode, the as-prepared rechargeable Zn–air battery shows a high current density of 215 mA cm-2 at a voltage of 1.0 V, large peak power density (310 mW cm-2), high potential efficiency (64.7% at 10 mA cm-2) and prolonged operation durability. This method provides a means to control the surface features, thereby tuning the catalytic properties of the material, and may open up new possibilities for the rational design and synthesis of new materials for electrochemical applications.},
doi = {10.1039/c8se00362a},
journal = {Sustainable Energy & Fuels},
number = 1,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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