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Yongrong Sun1, Zhikai Liu2, Hailu Liu1
1Biomaterials Engineering Technology Research Center, Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510316, China. xd0929@163.com.
Abstract:
The potential application of zinc air batteries to tackle the energy shortage and environmental crisis has proposed new requirements of bifunctional catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Utilizing the special spatial structure of zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) as an ideal research platform, the effect of a trace amount of Fe on the composition and structure of as-obtained Fe-CoNC catalysts was investigated. It was revealed that, due to the increased exposed pore structure and metal species located at the near surface, the active sites for the ORR/OER on Fe-CoNC are highly exposed, greatly boosting the activity to the reduction and evolution of oxygen in alkaline media. ZABs with Fe-CoNC have the highest maximum power density of 200 mW cm-2 when operated at current densities as high as 328 mA cm-2, better than not only Fe-free CoNC, but also precious metal-based references with the same catalyst loading.
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