1. Realizing large-scale and controllable fabrication of active cobalt oxide nanorod catalysts for zinc-air battery
- Author
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Cun-Ku Dong, Meng-Ying Wu, Peng-Fei Da, Yue-Jiao Li, Tao Ling, Jing Mao, Dong-Yang Yan, Kang-Wen Qiu, and Shi-Zhang Qiao
- Subjects
Materials science ,Applied Mathematics ,General Chemical Engineering ,Oxygen evolution ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,Zinc ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Electrocatalyst ,Electrochemistry ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Energy storage ,020401 chemical engineering ,Zinc–air battery ,chemistry ,Nanorod ,0204 chemical engineering ,0210 nano-technology ,Cobalt oxide - Abstract
Driven by the intensified demand for energy storage systems with high-energy density and safety, all-solid-state zinc (Zn) air batteries have drawn extensive attentions. However, the development of non-precious metals with high catalytic activity as the air electrode is still a big challenge. In this work, we realize the large-scale fabrication of single-crystal CoO nanorods with high active facets and abundant oxygen vacancies in-situ on conductive substrate, which exhibits superior electrocatalytic activity in both oxygen reduction reaction and oxygen evolution reaction. The all-solid-state Zn-air batteries assembled with such free-standing CoO NRs show low charge/discharge overpotentials, a high energy density and a high cyclic stability. Our work indicates that the rational structure design of catalysts can pave a new route to next generation efficient and durable electrochemical devices.
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- 2019