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GREEN ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 499-505Publisher
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gee.2020.06.022
Keywords
Mn3O4; Bifunctional electrocatalysts; Oxygen reduction reaction; Oxygen evolution reaction; Zinc air battery
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- Australian Research Council (ARC)
- Griffith University Postdoctoral Fellowship
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A non-noble-metal bifunctional catalyst with efficient and durable activity towards both the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is crucial to the development of rechargeable Zn-air batteries. Herein, a facile one-step hydrothermal method is reported for the synthesis of a high-performance bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst, cobalt-doped Mn3O4 nanocrystals supported on graphene nanosheets (Co-Mn3O4/G). Compare to pristine Mn3O4, this Co-Mn3O4/G exhibits greatly enhanced electrocatalytic activity, delivering a half-wave potential of 0.866 V for the ORR and a low overpotential of 275 mV at 10 mA cm(-2) for the OER. The zinc-air battery built with Co-Mn3O4/G shows a reduced charge-discharge voltage of 0.91 V at 10 mA cm(-2), an power density of 115.24 mW cm(-2) and excellent stability without any degradation after 945 cycles (315 h), outperforming the state-of-the-art Pt/C-Ir/C catalyst-based device. (C) 2020, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
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