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Research Article

Construction of ultra-stable NiFe armored catalyst for liquid and flexible quasi-solid-state rechargeable Zn–air batteries

Hanqin Sun1,§, Meiqi Zhao1,§, Chao Ma2,§, Wen Chen1, Yong Yang3( ), Yunhu Han1,4,5( )
Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Xi’an Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE) and Xi’an Institute of Biomedical Materials & Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Hanqin Sun, Meiqi Zhao, and Chao Ma contributed equally to this work.
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The metal–organic framework (MOF)-based catalyst Ar-NiFe/CN is an armor catalyst coated with a layer of graphene-like structure on the outer bread of NiFe alloy. The catalyst possesses an excellent oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and evolution reaction (OER) bifunctional activity and stability. The stability of the prepared liquid zinc–air battery has reached 460 h.

Abstract

The commercial application of non-precious metal-based electrocatalysts is not only limited by the intrinsic activity of the catalysts, but also the stability of the catalysts is extremely important. Herein, we fabricated an ultra-stable NiFe armored catalyst (Ar-NiFe/NC) by a simple secondary pyrolysis strategy. The as-obtained Ar-NiFe/NC electrocatalyst exhibits an excellent bifunctional oxygen electrocatalytic performance with an activity indicator ∆E of 0.74 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE). More importantly, the Ar-NiFe/NC electrocatalyst also shows a remarkable operational and storage stability. After accelerated durability test (ADT) cycles, no obvious degradation of oxygen electrocatalytic performance could be observed. In addition, the Ar-NiFe/NC electrocatalyst still exhibits an unbated oxygen electrocatalytic performance comparable to fresh catalysts after three months of air-exposed storage. The assembled liquid and flexible quasi-solid-state rechargeable Zn–air batteries with the Ar-NiFe/NC electrocatalyst exhibit impressive performance. The liquid rechargeable Zn–air batteries possess a high open-circuit voltage (OCV) of 1.43 V and a salient peak power density of 146.40 mW·cm−2, while the flexible quasi-solid-state rechargeable Zn–air batteries also exhibit an excellent OCV of 1.60 V and an exciting peak power density of 41.99 mW·cm−2.

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bifunctional oxygen electrocatalystoutstanding durabilityliquid Zn–air batteriesflexible quasi-solid-state Zn–air batteries

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 4,
April 2023
Pages 4980-4986
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-5197-2
Cite this article:
Sun H, Zhao M, Ma C, et al. Construction of ultra-stable NiFe armored catalyst for liquid and flexible quasi-solid-state rechargeable Zn–air batteries. Nano Research, 2023, 16(4): 4980-4986. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5197-2
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Received: 05 September 2022
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Published: 07 December 2022
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