期刊
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
卷 409, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2020.128171
关键词
Non-precious metal catalyst; Porous nanosphere structure; Oxygen reduction reaction; Co-N-x; Zn-air battery
资金
- self-determined research funds of CCNU from the colleges' basic research and operation of MOE [CCNU19TS038, 2019QN017]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province [2019CFB606]
- Wuhan Planning Project of Science and Technology [2018010401011294]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52072139, 21665007, 21964007]
- National Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province of China [2019RC188]
A synthesis strategy of embedding Co in porous carbon nanospheres is reported, leading to an outstanding cathode catalyst for oxygen reduction outperforming commercial Pt/C. The nanomaterial shows minimal degradation after 5000 cycles and an assembled Zn-air battery exhibits higher open-circuit voltage, power density, and discharge specific capacity.
Nonprecious-doped carbon materials are desirable as appropriate subsititutes for Pt-based catalysts in oxygen reduction reactions and metal-air batteries, but these materials currently present massive challenges due to their sluggish performance and insufficient stability. Herein, a straightforward synthesis strategy of embedding Co in porous carbon nanospheres is reported. Because of the rigid porous spherical structure and the existence of Co-N-x active sites, the as-prepared cathode catalyst exhibits an outstanding oxygen reduction performance (with an onset potential E-onset of 1.03 V vs RHE and a half-wave potential E-1/2 of 0.93 V vs RHE) in 0.1 M KOH, out-performing that of commercial Pt/C (E-onset = 1.03 V and E-1/2 = 0.87 V), and shows more rapid kinetics. Significantly, the nanomaterial shows a negligible degradation (Delta E-1/2 = 4 mV) after 5000 continuous cycles, which surpasses that of most of the highly active electrocatalysts reported to date. In addition, an assembled Zn-air battery composed of this effective electrocatalysts exhibits higher open-circuit voltage (1.44 V), power density (109.5 mW cm(-2)), and discharge specific capacity (657.2 mA h g(-1)) as a primary battery and has a long cycle life as a rechargeable battery. This work provides a large-scale preparation route for synthesizing efficient electrocatalysts to drive the oxygen reduction reaction in Zn-air batteries.
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