Interfacial Defect Engineering for Improved Portable Zinc–Air Batteries with a Broad Working Temperature

Li An; Bolong Huang; Yu Zhang; Rui Wang; Nan Zhang; Tengyuan Dai; Pinxian Xi; Chun Hua Yan

doi:10.1002/anie.201903879

Interfacial Defect Engineering for Improved Portable Zinc–Air Batteries with a Broad Working Temperature

Li An, Bolong Huang, Yu Zhang, Rui Wang, Nan Zhang, Tengyuan Dai, Pinxian Xi, Chun Hua Yan

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Abstract

Atomic-thick interfacial dominated bifunctional catalyst NiO/CoO transition interfacial nanowires (TINWs) with abundant defect sites display high electroactivity and durability in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that the excellent OER/ORR performance arises from the electron-rich interfacial region coupled with defect sites, thus enabling a fast-redox rate with lower activation barrier for fast electron transfer. When assembled as an air-electrode, NiO/CoO TINWs delivered the high specific capacity of 842.58 mAh g_Zn⁻¹, the large energy density of 996.44 Wh kg_Zn⁻¹ with long-time stability of more than 33 h (25 °C), and superior performance at low (−10 °C) and high temperature (80 °C).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9459-9463
Number of pages	5
Journal	Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume	58
Issue number	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201903879
Publication status	Published - 8 Jul 2019

Keywords

cathode materials
defect engineering
interfaces
oxygen evolution reaction
zinc–air batteries

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Catalysis
Chemistry(all)

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