Sustainable zinc–air battery chemistry: advances, challenges and prospects

Q Wang, S Kaushik, X Xiao, Q Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable zinc–air batteries (ZABs) are considered promising energy storage devices
owing to their inherent safety, high energy density, wide operating temperature window …

Single atom catalysts for fuel cells and rechargeable batteries: principles, advances, and opportunities

Y Wang, F Chu, J Zeng, Q Wang, T Naren, Y Li… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Owing to the energy crisis and environmental pollution, developing efficient and robust
electrochemical energy storage (or conversion) systems is urgently needed but still very …

Quasi-solid-state Zn-air batteries with an atomically dispersed cobalt electrocatalyst and organohydrogel electrolyte

Q Wang, Q Feng, Y Lei, S Tang, L Xu, Y Xiong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Quasi-solid-state Zn-air batteries are usually limited to relatively low-rate ability (< 10 mA
cm− 2), which is caused in part by sluggish oxygen electrocatalysis and unstable …

Phosphorus-Driven Electron Delocalization on Edge-Type FeN4 Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction in Acid Medium

H Yin, P Yuan, BA Lu, H Xia, K Guo, G Yang, G Qu… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Precise tuning of the chemical environment of neighboring atomic FeN4 sites is extremely
important for optimizing Fe–N–C catalysts to produce the fast oxygen reduction reaction …

Local surface plasma resonance effect enhanced Z-scheme ZnO/Au/g-C3N4 film photocatalyst for reduction of CO2 to CO

X Li, H Jiang, C Ma, Z Zhu, X Song, H Wang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Local Surface Plasma Resonance (LSPR) effect enhanced Z-scheme ZnO/Au/gC 3
N 4 micro-needles film (3-ZAC) has been prepared for the photoreduction of CO 2 into CO …

Nitrogen and sulfur co‐doped hierarchically porous carbon nanotubes for fast potassium ion storage

X Jin, X Wang, Y Liu, M Kim, M Cao, H Xie, S Liu… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Exploration of advanced carbon anode material is the key to circumventing the sluggish
kinetics and poor rate capability for potassium ion storage. Herein, a synergistic synthetic …

Chemical vapor deposition for N/S-doped single Fe site catalysts for the oxygen reduction in direct methanol fuel cells

X Li, X Yang, L Liu, H Zhao, Y Li, H Zhu, Y Chen… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Single metal site catalysts are the most promising candidates to replace platinum-group-
metal (PGM) catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), yet insufficient performance …

Highly Reversible Zinc‐Air Batteries at− 40° C Enabled by Anion‐Mediated Biomimetic Fat

D Deng, J Wu, Q Feng, X Zhao, M Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The wide application of portable electrical equipment, aerial vehicles, smart robotics, etc.
has boosted the development of advanced batteries with safety, high energy density, and …

Boosting interfacial charge transfer for alkaline hydrogen evolution via rational interior Se modification

Y Liu, Q Feng, W Liu, Q Li, Y Wang, B Liu, L Zheng… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
For electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in alkaline media, it is urgently
needed to accelerate the generation of H*. Here, using Se doped phosphides inside …

High zinc utilization aqueous zinc ion batteries enabled by 3D printed graphene arrays

B Wu, B Guo, Y Chen, Y Mu, H Qu, M Lin, J Bai… - Energy Storage …, 2023 - Elsevier
The commercialization of aqueous zinc ion batteries requires good reversibility and high
zinc utilization of zinc anode. For commonly applied 2D zinc anodes (zinc foils), their …