A soil/Vulcan XC-72 hybrid as a highly-effective catalytic cathode for rechargeable Li

A soil/Vulcan XC-72 hybrid as a highly-effective catalytic cathode for rechargeable Li–O2batteries

Published:2015 Issue:11 Volume:2 Page:1006-1010
ISSN:2052-1553
Container-title:Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
language:en
Short-container-title:Inorg. Chem. Front.

Author:

Hu Xiaofei¹²³⁴,Fu Xiaorui¹²³⁴,Chen Jun¹²³⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education)

2. Nankai University

3. Tianjin

4. People's Republic of China

5. Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering

Abstract

We report for the first time a hybrid of soil and commercial Vulcan XC-72 carbon (labeled as soil/C) as a high-performance cathode catalyst for rechargeable lithium–oxygen batteries. It was found that soil as a low cost and metal-free void volume expander in the hybrid catalyst is promising in the application of rechargeable Li–O₂batteries.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Inorganic Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/QI/C5QI00149H

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