Recent advances of noble-metal-free bifunctional oxygen reduction and evolution electrocatalysts

CX Zhao, JN Liu, J Wang, D Ren, BQ Li… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Oxygen reduction and evolution reactions constitute the core process of many vital energy
storage or conversion techniques. However, the kinetic sluggishness of the oxygen redox …

Advanced architectures and relatives of air electrodes in Zn–air batteries

J Pan, YY Xu, H Yang, Z Dong, H Liu… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Zn–air batteries are becoming the promising power sources for portable and wearable
electronic devices and hybrid/electric vehicles because of their high specific energy density …

Single Fe atom on hierarchically porous S, N‐codoped nanocarbon derived from porphyra enable boosted oxygen catalysis for rechargeable Zn‐air batteries

J Zhang, M Zhang, Y Zeng, J Chen, L Qiu, H Zhou… - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Iron–nitrogen–carbon materials (Fe–N–C) are known for their excellent oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) performance. Unfortunately, they generally show a laggard oxygen evolution …

Single atoms on a nitrogen-doped boron phosphide monolayer: A new promising bifunctional electrocatalyst for ORR and OER

H Zeng, X Liu, F Chen, Z Chen, X Fan… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) bifunctional
electrocatalysts have been pursued for decades. Meanwhile, single metal atoms embedded …

Recent progress on transition metal oxides as bifunctional catalysts for lithium‐air and zinc‐air batteries

J Pan, XL Tian, S Zaman, Z Dong, H Liu… - Batteries & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, rechargeable Li‐air and Zn‐air batteries have attracted wide attention due to
their high theoretical specific energy densities. However, the high cost and poor stability of …

Electrospun Thin-Walled CuCo2O4@C Nanotubes as Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable Zn–Air Batteries

X Wang, Y Li, T Jin, J Meng, L Jiao, M Zhu, J Chen - Nano letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Rational design of optimal bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst with low cost and high activity
is greatly desired for realization of rechargeable Zn–air batteries. Herein, we fabricate …

Toward promising cathode catalysts for nonlithium metal–oxygen batteries

J Mei, T Liao, J Liang, Y Qiao… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The success of Li–air/O2 batteries has brought extensive attention to the development of
various promising non‐Li metal–O2 batteries, such as Zn–O2, Al–O2, Mg–O2 batteries, etc …

Self-supported N-doped CNT arrays for flexible Zn–air batteries

L Liu, X Zhang, F Yan, B Geng, C Zhu… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The exploitation of flexible and rechargeable energy storage devices is crucial for meeting
the requirements of the next generation of electronic products. Herein, we report a novel …

Facilitated oxygen chemisorption in heteroatom‐doped carbon for improved oxygen reaction activity in all‐solid‐state zinc–air batteries

S Liu, M Wang, X Sun, N Xu, J Liu, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Driven by the intensified demand for energy storage systems with high‐power density and
safety, all‐solid‐state zinc–air batteries have drawn extensive attention. However, the …

Electrode materials for rechargeable zinc-ion and zinc-air batteries: current status and future perspectives

D Yang, H Tan, X Rui, Y Yu - Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2019 - Springer
Advanced energy storage systems hold critical significance in satisfying the ever-increasing
global demand for energy. And as a viable and effective alternative to lithium-ion batteries …