• 文献标题:   Ruthenium nanoparticles mounted on multielement co-doped graphene: an ultra-high-efficiency cathode catalyst for Li-O-2 batteries
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZENG XY, YOU CH, LENG LM, DANG D, QIAO XC, LI XH, LI YW, LIAO SJ, ADZIC RR
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
  • ISSN:   2050-7488 EI 2050-7496
  • 通讯作者地址:   S China Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   41
  • DOI:   10.1039/c5ta01887k
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Developing a high-performance Li-O-2 battery demands an air electrode with a high-efficiency bifunctional catalyst. Here we designed a new type of bifunctional cathode catalyst by mounting ruthenium nanoparticles on reduced graphene oxide co-doped with nitrogen, iron, and cobalt. The catalyst exhibited significantly higher ORR and OER activities than a commercial Pt/C catalyst in both aqueous and non-aqueous electrolytes. With this novel catalyst as the cathode, the battery exhibited an ultra-high reversible capacity of 23 905 mA h g(-1) at a current density of 200 mA g(-1). Furthermore, the battery also exhibited an excellent cycling stability-after 300 cycles of limited capacity, the discharge plateau potential decreased only slightly, and the energy efficiency was still above 60%. The battery also demonstrated good rate performance; with discharge current densities of up to 1000 and 2000 mA g(-1), the capacities still reached 14 560 and 6420 mA h g(-1), respectively. We suggest that the excellent performance of our catalyst can be ascribed to the excellent ORR performance of the multielement co-doped graphene and the excellent OER performance of the mounted Ru nanoparticles. In addition, the nanosheet structure with high surface area of the multielement co-doped graphene may result in the formation of uniform Li2O2 nanocrystals, which make the formation (discharge) and decomposition (charge) processes much more reversible.