• 文献标题:   Amorphous Bimetallic Oxide-Graphene Hybrids as Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WEI L, KARAHAN HE, ZHAI SL, LIU HW, CHEN XC, ZHOU Z, LEI YJ, LIU ZW, CHEN Y
  • 作者关键词:   amorphous bimetallic oxide, bifunctional air catalyst, prussian blue analog, znair batterie
  • 出版物名称:   ADVANCED MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   0935-9648 EI 1521-4095
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Sydney
  • 被引频次:   80
  • DOI:   10.1002/adma.201701410
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Metal oxides of earth-abundant elements are promising electrocatalysts to overcome the sluggish oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reaction (OER/ORR) in many electrochemical energy-conversion devices. However, it is difficult to control their catalytic activity precisely. Here, a general three-stage synthesis strategy is described to produce a family of hybrid materials comprising amorphous bimetallic oxide nanoparticles anchored on N-doped reduced graphene oxide with simultaneous control of nanoparticle elemental composition, size, and crystallinity. Amorphous Fe0.5Co0.5Ox is obtained from Prussian blue analog nanocrystals, showing excellent OER activity with a Tafel slope of 30.1 mV dec(-1) and an overpotential of 257 mV for 10 mA cm(-2) and superior ORR activity with a large limiting current density of -5.25 mA cm(-2) at 0.6 V. A fabricated Zn-air battery delivers a specific capacity of 756 mA h g(Zn)(-1) (corresponding to an energy density of 904 W h kg(Zn)(-1)), a peak power density of 86 mW cm(-2) and can be cycled over 120 h at 10 mA cm(-2). Other two amorphous bimetallic, Ni0.4Fe0.6Ox and Ni0.33Co0.67Ox, are also produced to demonstrate the general applicability of this method for synthesizing binary metal oxides with controllable structures as electrocatalysts for energy conversion.