Trace metals dramatically boost oxygen electrocatalysis of N-doped coal-derived carbon for zinc

Trace metals dramatically boost oxygen electrocatalysis of N-doped coal-derived carbon for zinc–air batteries

Published:2020 Issue:17 Volume:12 Page:9628-9639
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Liu Huimin¹²³⁴⁵,Huang Xinning⁶³⁴⁵,Lu Zhenjie¹²³⁴⁵,Wang Tao⁷⁸⁹¹⁰⁵,Zhu Yaming¹²³⁴⁵,Cheng Junxia¹²³⁴⁵,Wang Yue¹²³⁴⁵,Wu Dongling⁷⁸⁹¹⁰⁵,Sun Zhenyu¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴⁵^ORCID,Robertson Alex W.¹⁵¹⁶¹⁷¹⁸^ORCID,Chen Xingxing¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Research Group of Functional Materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion

2. School of Chemical Engineering

3. University of Science and Technology Liaoning

4. 114051 Anshan

5. P. R. China

6. Engineering Training Center

7. Key Laboratory of Energy Materials Chemistry

8. Institute of Applied Chemistry

9. Xinjiang University

10. 830046 Urumqi

11. State Key Laboratory of Organic–Inorganic Composites

12. College of Chemical Engineering

13. Beijing University of Chemical Technology

14. Beijing 100029

15. Department of Materials

16. University of Oxford

17. Oxford OX1 3PH

18. UK

Abstract

The commercialization of metal–air batteries requires efficient, low-cost, and stable bifunctional electrocatalysts for reversible electrocatalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER).

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

University of Science and Technology Liaoning

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/NR/C9NR10800A

Reference57 articles.

1. Lattice-strained metal–organic-framework arrays for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis

2. Efficient Co–N/PC@CNT bifunctional electrocatalytic materials for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions based on metal–organic frameworks