Highly active and durable carbon nitride fibers as metal-free bifunctional oxygen electrodes for flexible Zn-air batteries
- Title
- Highly active and durable carbon nitride fibers as metal-free bifunctional oxygen electrodes for flexible Zn-air batteries
- Author
- 이정호
- Issue Date
- 2017-11
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Citation
- Nanoscale horizons, v. 2, NO. 6, Page. 333-341
- Abstract
- The design of flexible, highly energetic, and durable bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts is indispensable for rechargeable metal-air batteries. Herein we present a simple approach for the development of carbon nitride fibers co-doped with phosphorus and sulfur, grown in situ on carbon cloth (PS-CNFs) as a flexible electrode material, and demonstrate its outstanding bifunctional catalytic activities toward ORR and OER compared to those of precious metal-based Pt/C and IrO2 on account of the dual action of P and S, numerous active sites, high surface area, and enhanced charge transfer. Furthermore, we demonstrate the flexibility, suitability, and durability of PS-CNFs as air electrodes for primary and rechargeable Zn-air batteries. Primary Zn-air batteries using this electrode showed high peak power density (231 mW cm(-2)), specific capacity (698 mA h g(-1); analogous energy density of 785 W h kg(-1)), open circuit potential (1.49 V), and outstanding durability of more than 240 h of operation followed by mechanical recharging. Significantly, three-electrode rechargeable Zn-air batteries revealed a superior charge-discharge voltage polarization of similar to 0.82 V at 20 mA cm(-2), exceptional reversibility, and continuous charge-discharge cycling stability during 600 cycles. This work provides a pioneering strategy for designing flexible and stretchable metal-free bifunctional catalysts as gas diffusion layers for future portable and wearable renewable energy conversion and storage devices.
- URI
- https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/NH/C7NH00058Hhttps://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/181343
- ISSN
- 2055-6756;2055-6764
- DOI
- 10.1039/c7nh00058h
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- COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES[E](공학대학) > MATERIALS SCIENCE AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING(재료화학공학과) > Articles
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