Rechargeable batteries for grid scale energy storage

Z Zhu, T Jiang, M Ali, Y Meng, Y Jin, Y Cui… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ever-increasing global energy consumption has driven the development of renewable
energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. Battery energy …

Carbon-based electrocatalysts for rechargeable Zn–air batteries: design concepts, recent progress and future perspectives

X Zou, M Tang, Q Lu, Y Wang, Z Shao… - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
With increasing interest in energy storage solutions, rapid progress has been made by
researchers in the area of rechargeable Zn–air batteries (R-ZABs), which offer multiple …

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 …

Rechargeable Zn-air batteries: Recent trends and future perspectives

KW Leong, Y Wang, M Ni, W Pan, S Luo… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently a hot research topic, rechargeable zinc-air batteries are considered one of the
most promising post lithium-ion battery technologies for utility-scale energy storage, electric …

Atomically dispersed transition metal-nitrogen-carbon bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for zinc-air batteries: recent advances and future perspectives

F Dong, M Wu, Z Chen, X Liu, G Zhang, J Qiao… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
Rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are currently receiving extensive attention because
of their extremely high theoretical specific energy density, low manufacturing costs, and …

Carbon-based bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions: Optimization strategies and mechanistic analysis

H Xu, J Yang, R Ge, J Zhang, Y Li, M Zhu, L Dai… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrocatalysts are one of the essential components for the devices of high-efficiency green
energy storage and conversion, such as metal-air cells, fuel cells, and water electrolysis …

Defect and doping co-engineered non-metal nanocarbon ORR electrocatalyst

J Zhang, J Zhang, F He, Y Chen, J Zhu, D Wang… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2021 - Springer
Exploring low-cost and earth-abundant oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalyst is
essential for fuel cells and metal–air batteries. Among them, non-metal nanocarbon with …

A hierarchically porous Fe-NC synthesized by dual melt-salt-mediated template as advanced electrocatalyst for efficient oxygen reduction in zinc-air battery

H Xu, D Wang, P Yang, L Du, X Lu, R Li, L Liu… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
The reasonable design of porous structures is important but usually overlooked for
nonprecious metal ORR catalysts. In this study, a facile dual melt-salt-mediated templating …

Coupling of iron phthalocyanine at carbon defect site via π-π stacking for enhanced oxygen reduction reaction

X Yu, S Lai, S Xin, S Chen, X Zhang, X She… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
The intrinsic activity of transition metal catalytic centers for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)
depends heavily on its electronic structure, which with an electron-rich environment will …

Fabrication of biomass-based functional carbon materials for energy conversion and storage

X Yang, H He, T Lv, J Qiu - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing attention to energy and environmental issues, the high-efficiency
utilization of biomass becomes an exciting new field in the science and technology. Biomass …