Schiff-base polymer derived FeCo-N-doped porous carbon flowers as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst for long-life rechargeable zinc-air batteries

doi:10.1016/j.jechem.2022.09.031

Abstract

Abstract: Rational design and exploration of low-cost and robust bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts are vitally important for developing high-performance zinc-air batteries (ZABs). Herein, we reported a facile yet cost-efficient approach to construct a bifunctional oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)/oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst composed of N-doped porous carbon nanosheet flowers decorated with FeCo nanoparticles (FeCo/N-CF). Rational design of this catalyst is achieved by designing Schiff-base polymer with unique molecular structure via hydrogen bonding of cyanuramide and terephthalaldehyde polycondensate in the presence of metal cations. It exhibits excellent activity and stability for electrocatalysis of ORR/OER, enabling ZAB with a high peak power density of 172 mW cm^-2 and a large specific capacity of 811 mA h g^-1_Zn at large current. The rechargeable ZAB demonstrates excellent durability for 1000 h with slight voltage decay, far outperforming a couple of precious Pt/Ir-based catalysts. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that high activity of bimetallic FeCo stems from enhanced O₂ and OH^- adsorption and accelerated O₂ dissociation by OO bond activation.

Key words: Rechargeable zinc-air batteries, Oxygen electrocatalyst, Schiff-base polymer, Bimetallic FeCo, N-doped porous carbon

Yusong Deng, Jiahui Zheng, Bei Liu, Huaming Li, Mei Yang, Zhiyu Wang. Schiff-base polymer derived FeCo-N-doped porous carbon flowers as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst for long-life rechargeable zinc-air batteries[J]. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2023, 76(1): 470-478.

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