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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 595, Issue -, Pages 185-191Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.01.148
Keywords
Lithium-oxygen battery; Graphene sponge; Oxygen reduction reaction; Oxygen evolution reaction
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Funding
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2012M510178, 2013T60716]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [51202076, 20825520]
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The cathode of a lithium-oxygen battery needs the synergism of a porous conducting material and a catalyst to facilitate the formation and decomposition of lithium peroxide. Here we introduce a graphene sponge (GS) modified with Fe-N-C catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The porous, 3-dimensional conductive and free standing nature of the graphene sponge makes it become excellent skeleton of cathode for lithium-oxygen battery. The Fe-N-C catalyst nanoparticles dispersed uniformly on the graphene sheets show excellent catalytic reactivity in both discharge and charge processes. This kind of composite material greatly improves the capacity and cyclability of the lithium-oxygen battery. With dimethyl sulphoxide as electrolyte, the capacity reaches 6762 mAh g(-1) which is twice of the pure graphene sponge. In addition, the cell containing Fe-N-GS air electrode exhibits stable cyclic performance and effective reduction of charge potential plateau, indicating that Fe-N-GS is promising as an OER catalyst in rechargeable lithium-air batteries. (C) 2014 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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