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Chlorine-doping regulation of Fe-NC enhanced oxygen reduction and zinc-air battery performance
Zhengyang Hu1, Tenghao Ma1, Xuefei Zhou1
1Xi'an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, PR China. zhanghepeng@nwpu.edu.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 13, 2026
Abstract:
NaCl-assisted annealing creates defect-rich Fe-Nx environments and renders Fe centres more electron deficient in Fe-NC. The resulting catalyst reaches an ORR half-wave potential of 0.89 V vs. RHE and enables zinc-air battery cycling beyond 2200 h. Spectroscopy and DFT attribute the enhancement to weakened *OH adsorption.
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