Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 5, Issue 11, Pages 5594-5600Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ta00299h
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Funding
- NSFC
- 973 Program [2014CB932104]
- Beijing Engineering Centre for Hierarchical Catalysts
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [YS1406]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University [IRT1205]
- Ministry of Finance
- Ministry of Education of PRC
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The design of highly efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) plays a key role in the development of various renewable energy storage and conversion devices. Recently, metal-organic framework (MOF) derived materials have shown great potential in ORR and OER; however, they may suffer from poor conductivity with limited electrochemical performance especially towards OER. In this work, nickel-cobalt oxides supported on Co/N decorated graphene were prepared by introducing nickel in a zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) as the precursor, which showed improved OER performance due to the as-derived NixCoyO4, and maintained the ORR performance of Co/N doped carbon at the same time. Meanwhile, graphene was utilized to further enhance the electrochemical surface area and charge transfer efficiency. The resulting composites show a potential of 0.796 V at 3 mA cm(-2) and superior stability to Pt/C towards ORR, as well as a potential of 1.629 V to achieve 10 mA cm(-2) current density for OER, which is much better than that of IrO2. In all, the overvoltage between ORR and OER was just 0.833 V, demonstrating the great potential of the composite in metal-air batteries as a bifunctional oxygen catalyst.
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