催化学报 ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (11): 2906-2912.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(21)63979-7

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“2合1”策略构建双功能氧电极反应电催化剂用于可充电锌-空气电池

刘会兵, 谢日鑫, 牛自强, 贾巧焕, 杨柳*(), 王世涛, 曹达鹏#()   

  1. 北京化工大学有机无机复合材料国家重点实验室, 北京 100029
  • 收稿日期:2022-03-26 接受日期:2022-05-16 出版日期:2022-11-18 发布日期:2022-10-20
  • 通讯作者: 杨柳,曹达鹏
  • 作者简介: 共同第一作者
  • 基金资助:
    国家重点研发计划项目(2019YFA0210300);北京化工大学优秀人才和国家博士后创新人才计划(BX20200041)

Two-in-one strategy to construct bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable Zn-air battery

Huibing Liu, Rixin Xie, Ziqiang Niu, Qiaohuan Jia, Liu Yang*(), Shitao Wang, Dapeng Cao#()   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
  • Received:2022-03-26 Accepted:2022-05-16 Online:2022-11-18 Published:2022-10-20
  • Contact: Liu Yang, Dapeng Cao
  • About author: Contributed equally to this work.
  • Supported by:
    National Key Research and Development Project(2019YFA0210300);Outstanding Talent Fund from Beijing University of Chemical Technology and China National Postdoctoral Program of Innovative Talents(BX20200041)

摘要:

可循环充放电的锌空气电池具有理论能量密度高、环境友好和相对安全性等特性, 因而广受关注. 但锌空气电池的性能受到氧电极上缓慢的氧还原反应(ORR)/析氧反应(OER)动力学的限制. 目前, 贵金属催化剂Pt/C, IrO2和RuO2被认为是ORR/OER性能较好的电催化剂, 然而高成本阻碍了其商业化应用. 因此, 开发非贵金属ORR/OER催化剂具有十分重要的意义. 目前, 氮掺杂多孔碳(NPC)是有效的非贵金属基ORR催化剂之一, 因为高电负性的氮可以调控碳原子的电子结构, 使催化剂表面电荷再分配, 有效调节催化剂对反应中间体的化学吸附能, 进而促进ORR电催化反应, 碱性条件下其ORR电催化性能甚至能超过商业Pt/C催化剂. 但NPC缺乏OER活性位点, 不是一种良好的双功能氧电极反应电催化剂. 文献研究表明, 金属氧化物或氢氧化物(MOOH)被认为是真正的OER活性中心, 但它们几乎没有ORR活性. 因此, 将高ORR和OER活性中心(如MOOH和NPC)整合到一种复合材料中的“2合1”策略对设计高效双功能氧电极催化剂具有重要意义.

本文采用“2合1”策略合成了金属羟基氧化物负载于NPC的双功能氧电极反应催化剂(PA-CoFe@NPC), 其中NPC作为ORR催化活性位点, 金属羟基氧化物作为OER催化活性位点. 该双功能催化剂PA-CoFe@NPC表现出较好的ORR和OER催化活性, ORR起始电位为0.95 V, 半波电位为0.85 V vs. RHE; 对于OER反应, 仅需要384 mV过电势即可得到10 mA cm‒2的电流密度. 该催化剂OER和ORR的电势差为0.76 V, 优于对比样20%Pt/C+IrO2 (0.85 V). 将该双功能氧电极催化剂用于锌-空气电池的氧电极, 所制备的锌-空气电池表现出较好的充放电性能和较高的功率密度(156.3 mW cm‒2), 并且170 h连续充放电循环稳定, 其稳定性以及活性明显优于20%Pt/C+IrO2作为氧电极所制备的锌-空气电池的性能. 综上, 本文所报道的“2合1”策略为设计多功能电催化剂提供了一种新思路.

关键词: 2合1策略, 双功能催化剂, 氧还原, 氧析出, 锌-空气电池

Abstract:

Integrating two different catalytic active sites into one composite is a useful 2-in-1 strategy for designing high-efficient bifunctional catalysts, which can easily tailor the activity of each reaction. Hence, we adopt the 2-in-1 strategy to design the metal oxyhydroxide supported on N-doped porous carbons (PA-CoFe@NPC) as the oxygen bifunctional catalyst, where NPC provides the activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) while the metal oxyhydroxide is responsible for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Results demonstrate that the PA-CoFe@NPC indeed exhibits both super ORR and OER activities. Impressively, using bifunctional PA-CoFe@NPC as the oxygen electrode, the resulting Zn-air battery exhibits outstanding charge and discharge performance with the peak power density of 156.3 mW cm‒2, and also exhibits a long-term cycle stability with continuous cyclic charge and discharge of 170 hours that is obviously better than the 20% Pt/C+IrO2 based one. The 2-in-1 strategy in this work can be efficiently extended to design other bi- or multi-functional electrocatalysts.

Key words: Two-in-one strategy, Bifunctional catalyst, Oxygen reduction, Oxygen evolution, Zn-air battery