Enhanced activity towards oxygen electrocatalysis for rechargeable Zn-air batteries by alloying Fe and Co in N-doped carbon

Large-scale application of rechargeable Zn-air batteries requires low-cost electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) as alternatives to noble metals. Herein, FeCo nanoparticles embedded in N-doped carbon (FeCo/N-C) were prepared by a two-step pyrolysis route. FeCo/N-C exhibits excellent activities toward both the ORR (half-wave potential of 0.84 V) and OER (overpotential of 345 mV at 10 mA cm-2), which are comparable to those of commercial Pt/C and RuO2, and by far exceeding their counterparts Fe/N-C and Co/N-C. Furthermore, the FeCo/N-C catalyst was evaluated in a rechargeable Zn-air battery for the full-cell test. The FeCo/N-C based battery is more durable with a smaller round-trip overpotential after 800 cycles than the battery using an expensive Pt/C + RuO2 mixture catalyst.

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E-Artikel

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2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:50

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Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) - 50(2021), 44 vom: 16. Nov., Seite 16185-16190

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yu, Fengjiao [VerfasserIn]
Ying, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Ni, Shaofeng [VerfasserIn]
Li, Chenxue [VerfasserIn]
Xue, Daxiang [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Yang [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 17.11.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1039/d1dt02787e

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NLM332615502