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Chen, Kai, Kim, Seonghee, Je, Minyeong, Choi, Heechae ORCID: 0000-0002-9390-6607, Shi, Zhicong ORCID: 0000-0003-2360-7668, Vladimir, Nikola, Kim, Kwang Ho and Li, Oi Lun (2021). Ultrasonic Plasma Engineering Toward Facile Synthesis of Single-Atom M-N-4/N-Doped Carbon (M = Fe, Co) as Superior Oxygen Electrocatalyst in Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries. Nano-Micro Lett., 13 (1). SHANGHAI: SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIV PRESS. ISSN 2150-5551

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Abstract

As bifunctional oxygen evolution/reduction electrocatalysts, transition-metal-based single-atom-doped nitrogen-carbon (NC) matrices are promising successors of the corresponding noble-metal-based catalysts, offering the advantages of ultrahigh atom utilization efficiency and surface active energy. However, the fabrication of such matrices (e.g., well-dispersed single-atom-doped M-N-4/NCs) often requires numerous steps and tedious processes. Herein, ultrasonic plasma engineering allows direct carbonization in a precursor solution containing metal phthalocyanine and aniline. When combining with the dispersion effect of ultrasonic waves, we successfully fabricated uniform single-atom M-N-4 (M = Fe, Co) carbon catalysts with a production rate as high as 10 mg min(-1). The Co-N-4/NC presented a bifunctional potential drop of Delta E = 0.79 V, outperforming the benchmark Pt/C-Ru/C catalyst (Delta E = 0.88 V) at the same catalyst loading. Theoretical calculations revealed that Co-N-4 was the major active site with superior O-2 adsorption-desorption mechanisms. In a practical Zn-air battery test, the air electrode coated with Co-N-4/NC exhibited a specific capacity (762.8 mAh g(-1)) and power density (101.62 mW cm(-2)), exceeding those of Pt/C-Ru/C (700.8 mAh g(-1) and 89.16 mW cm(-2), respectively) at the same catalyst loading. Moreover, for Co-N-4/NC, the potential difference increased from 1.16 to 1.47 V after 100 charge-discharge cycles. The proposed innovative and scalable strategy was concluded to be well suited for the fabrication of single-atom-doped carbons as promising bifunctional oxygen evolution/reduction electrocatalysts for metal-air batteries.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Chen, Kai UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kim, Seonghee UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Je, Minyeong UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Choi, Heechae UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-9390-6607 UNSPECIFIED Shi, Zhicong UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-2360-7668 UNSPECIFIED Vladimir, Nikola UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kim, Kwang Ho UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Li, Oi Lun UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-590395
DOI:	10.1007/s40820-020-00581-4
Journal or Publication Title:	Nano-Micro Lett.
Volume:	13
Number:	1
Date:	2021
Publisher:	SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	SHANGHAI
ISSN:	2150-5551
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATION; DISPERSED METAL-CATALYSTS; N-DOPED CARBON; REDUCTION REACTION; POROUS CARBONS; EFFICIENT; COBALT; NANOPARTICLES; GRAPHENE; EVOLUTION Multiple languages Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; Physics, Applied Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/59039