Regulating the Interfacial Electron Density of La0.8Sr0.2Mn0.5Co0.5O3/RuOxfor Efficient and Low-Cost Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts and Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries

Yawen Dai; Jie Yu; Zhenbao Zhang; Shuo Zhai; Chun Cheng; Siyuan Zhao; Peng Tan; Zongping Shao; Meng Ni

doi:10.1021/acsami.1c18081

Regulating the Interfacial Electron Density of La_0.8Sr_0.2Mn_0.5Co_0.5O₃/RuO_xfor Efficient and Low-Cost Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts and Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries

Yawen Dai
, Jie Yu
, Zhenbao Zhang
, Shuo Zhai
, Chun Cheng
, Siyuan Zhao
, Peng Tan
, Zongping Shao
, Meng Ni

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Abstract

La0.8Sr0.2Mn0.5Co0.5O3 (LSMC) perovskite anchored with RuOx (LSMC-Ru) is fabricated as a new bifunctional electrocatalyst, with low dosage (2.43 wt %) and high utilization of noble metal Ru. The LSMC-Ru exhibits outstanding bifunctional activity with a low potential gap of 0.72 V between the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) potential at 10 mA cm-2 and the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) half-wave potential. The strong electronic interaction between RuOx and LSMC is confirmed by both experiments and theoretical calculations. Consequently, the electron-rich Mn centers promote ORR, while the electron-deficient Ru centers facilitate OER. A Zn-air battery using the LSMC-Ru air electrode delivers a peak power density of 159 mW cm-2 and a low charge-discharge potential gap of 0.58 V at 2 mA cm-2. The high round-trip energy efficiency of 60.6% is retained after 300 cycles. This strategy of anchoring a low dosage noble metal catalyst to perovskite can be extended to other systems of noble metal-non-noble metal composite electrocatalysts to achieve both competitive performance and low cost.

Original language	English
Journal	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c18081
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2021

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Keywords

electronic structure regulation
oxygen evolution reaction
oxygen reduction reaction
perovskite oxide
Zn-air battery

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Materials Science

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10.1021/acsami.1c18081

http://hdl.handle.net/10397/97480

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