Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 4028-4036Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b19971
Keywords
Ni3Fe-Co9S8 composite; graphene; bifunctional electrocatalyst; synergetic effects; Zn-air batteries
Funding
- AcRF Tier 1 grant [RG17/16]
- Ministry of Education, Singapore
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21875112]
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The development of low-cost and efficient electrocatalysts with a bicomponent active surface for reversible oxygen electrode reactions is highly desirable and challenging. Herein, we develop an effective calcination-hydrothermal approach to fabricate graphene aerogelanchored Ni3Fe-Co9S8 bifunctional electrocatalyst (Ni3Fe-Co9S8/rGO). The mutually beneficial Ni3Fe-Co9S8 bifunctional active components efficiently balance the performance of oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions (ORR/OER), in which Co9S8 promotes the ORR and Ni3Fe facilitates the OER This balance behavior has an obvious advantage over that of monocomponent Ni3Fe/rGO and Co9S8/rGO catalysts. Meanwhile, the additional synergy between porous rGO aerogels and Ni3Fe-Co9S8 endows the composite with more exposed active sites, faster electrons/ions transport rate, and better structural stability. Benefiting from the reasonable material selection and structural design, the Ni3Fe-Co9S8/rGO exhibits not only outstanding ORR activity with the high onset- and half-wave potentials (E-onset = 0.91 V and E-1/2 = 0.80 V) but also satisfactory OER activity with a low overpotential at 10 mA cm(-2) (0.39 V). Moreover, rechargeable Zn-air cells equipped with Ni3Fe-Co9S8/rGO exhibit excellent rechargeability and a fast dynamic response.
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