• 文献标题:   Anchoring Mo single atoms/clusters and N on edge-rich nanoporous holey graphene as bifunctional air electrode in Zn - air batteries
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DU P, HU KL, LYU J, LI HL, LIN X, XIE GQ, LIU XJ, ITO Y, QIU HJ
  • 作者关键词:   holey graphene, singleatom mo, defects/edge, oxygen reduction reaction, oxygen evolution reaction
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED CATALYSIS BENVIRONMENTAL
  • ISSN:   0926-3373 EI 1873-3883
  • 通讯作者地址:   Harbin Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.apcatb.2020.119172
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Materials co-design of the single-atom catalytic centers and the supports can push the limits of the emerging wearable metal-air batteries. The metal single-atom catalysts are required to be bifunctional with high efficient electrocatalytic activities for both oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (ORR and OER), and preferably non-noble. The supports, on the other hand, in addition to the requirements of being free-standing, flexible and porous, are required to strongly interact with the metal species to prevent their aggregation. However, satisfying these requirements simultaneously is yet challenging. Here, a free-standing 3D nanoporous holey graphene with both N and single-atom Mo dopants is prepared. The nanoholes are created by chemical vapor deposition method on nanoporous NiMo alloy templates with their surface decorated with catalytically inert SiO2 nanoparticles. The edge-rich graphene induced by the nanoholes facilitates the doping of pyridinic N and single-atom Mo in the fringe near the edges. The resulting N and Mo co-doped nanoporous holey graphene exhibits high bifunctional ORR and OER catalytic activities in alkaline electrolytes. The synergetic effects between N and Mo dopants are also revealed by density functional theory calculations. When incorporated in a solid-state zinc-air battery, the battery is bendable and can be continuously discharged/charged for 88 h with a high power density of 83 mW cm(-2). This work provides an efficient route to design metal single atom/cluster doped 3D freestanding nanoporous graphene as flexible electrodes.