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Niu Yanli, Gong Shuaiqi, Liu Xuan, Xu Chen, Xu Mingze, Sun Shi-Gang, Chen Zuofeng. Engineering iron-group bimetallic nanotubes as efficient bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for flexible Zn–air batteries[J]. eScience, 2022, 2(5): 546-556. doi: 10.1016/j.esci.2022.05.001
Citation: Niu Yanli, Gong Shuaiqi, Liu Xuan, Xu Chen, Xu Mingze, Sun Shi-Gang, Chen Zuofeng. Engineering iron-group bimetallic nanotubes as efficient bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for flexible Zn–air batteries[J]. eScience, 2022, 2(5): 546-556. doi: 10.1016/j.esci.2022.05.001
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Engineering iron-group bimetallic nanotubes as efficient bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for flexible Zn–air batteries

doi: 10.1016/j.esci.2022.05.001
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    Shanghai Key Laboratory of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

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    State Key Lab of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China

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  • Corresponding author: E-mail address: zfchen@tongji.edu.cn (Z. Chen)
  • Received Date: 2022-01-22
  • Revised Date: 2022-03-22
  • Accepted Date: 2022-05-06
    • Available Online: 2022-05-11
    Abstract
  • Air cathode performance is essential for rechargeable zinc–air batteries (ZABs). In this study, we develop a self-templated synthesis technique for fabricating bimetallic alloys (FeNi3), bimetallic nitrides (FeNi3N) and heterostructured FeNi3/FeNi3N hollow nanotubes. Owing to its structural and compositional advantages, FeNi3/FeNi3N exhibits remarkable bifunctional oxygen electrocatalytic performance with an extremely small potential gap of 0.68 ​V between the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Theoretical calculations reveal reduced Gibbs free energy for the rate-limiting O–O bond formation during OER due to the self-adaptive surface reconfiguration, which induces a synergistic effect between Fe(Ni)OOH developed in situ on the surface and the inner FeNi3/FeNi3N. ZAB fabricated using the FeNi3/FeNi3N catalyst shows high power density, small charge/discharge voltage gap and excellent cycling stability. In addition to its excellent battery performance, the corresponding quasi-solid-state ZAB shows robust flexibility and integrability. The synthesis method is extended to prepare a CoFe/CoFeN oxygen electrocatalyst, demonstrating its applicability to other iron-group elements.
    • ● DFT results reveal critical roles of heterointerface engineering and surface reconfiguration of FeNi3/FeNi3N on catalysis.
    ● FeNi3/FeNi3N is used as an excellent air cathode in both liquid and flexible quasi-solid-state rechargeable Zn–air batteries.
    ● FeNi3/FeNi3N exhibits high bifunctional activity with an extremely small potential gap of 0.68 ​V between OER and ORR.
    ● Heterostructured FeNi3/FeNi3N and CoFe/CoFeN nanotubes are fabricated using a convenient self-templated synthetic strategy.
    Declaration of competing interest
    The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
    Supplementary data to this article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esci.2022.05.001.
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