Atomic Ni and Cu co-anchored 3D nanoporous graphene as an efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalyst for zinc

Atomic Ni and Cu co-anchored 3D nanoporous graphene as an efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalyst for zinc–air batteries

Published:2021 Issue:24 Volume:13 Page:10862-10870
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Cheng Yongtai¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Wu Haofei¹²³⁴⁵,Han Jiuhui⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰,Zhong Siying¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴,Huang Senhe¹⁵²¹⁶¹⁷⁴,Chu Shufen¹²³⁴⁵,Song Shuangxi¹²³⁴⁵,Reddy Kolan Madhav¹²³⁴⁵,Wang Xiaodong¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Wu Shaoyi¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴,Zhuang Xiaodong¹⁵²¹⁶¹⁷⁴^ORCID,Johnson Isaac¹⁰⁷⁸⁹¹⁸,Liu Pan¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Chen Mingwei¹⁸¹⁹²⁰²¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced High-temperature Materials and Precision Forming

2. State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites

3. School of Materials Science and Engineering

4. Shanghai Jiao Tong University

5. Shanghai 200240

6. Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS)

7. Tohoku University

8. Sendai 980-8577

9. Japan

10. WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research

11. School of Physics

12. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

13. Chengdu

14. P. R. China

15. The meso-Entropy Matter Lab

16. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing

17. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

18. Department of Materials Science and Engineering

19. Johns Hopkins University

20. Baltimore

21. USA

Abstract

Important progress is reported in the development of dual single-atom transition metal co-anchored catalysts, CuN_x and NiN_x moieties anchored on 3D nanoporous graphene, with superior ORR activities and durability for zinc–air batteries.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai

Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning

Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/NR/D1NR01612A