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Chenlong Dong, Xilin Zhang, Shaoning Zhang, Siwei Zhao, Xueyu Lin, Xin Wang, Yajing Zhang, Fuqiang Huang. Manipulating oxygenate adsorption on N-doped carbon by coupling with CoSn alloy for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst. Green Energy&Environment, 2023, 8(5): 1417-1428. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2022.02.005
Citation: Chenlong Dong, Xilin Zhang, Shaoning Zhang, Siwei Zhao, Xueyu Lin, Xin Wang, Yajing Zhang, Fuqiang Huang. Manipulating oxygenate adsorption on N-doped carbon by coupling with CoSn alloy for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst. Green Energy&Environment, 2023, 8(5): 1417-1428. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2022.02.005
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Manipulating oxygenate adsorption on N-doped carbon by coupling with CoSn alloy for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst

doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2022.02.005

  • a. Tianjin Key Laboratory for Photoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China;

  • b. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China;

  • c. School of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453007, China;

  • d. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China;

  • e. College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

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This work was financially supported by Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan (Program No. 20DZ1204400), and the Key Research Program of Frontier Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. QYZDJ-SSW-JSC013).

  • Received date 23 December 2021, Accepted date 09 February 2022, RevRecd date 22 January 2022, Publish date 15 February 2022,
    Abstract
  • Highly active bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts accelerate the development of high-performance Zn-air battery, but suffer from the mismatched activities of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduced reaction (ORR). Herein, highly integrated bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts, cobalt-tin alloys coated by nitrogen doped carbon (CoSn@NC) are prepared by MOFs-derived method. In this hybrid catalyst, the binary CoSn nanoalloys mainly contribute to highly active OER process while the Co (or Sn)−N−C serves as ORR active sites. Rational interaction between CoSn and NC donates more rapid reaction kinetics than Pt/C (ORR) and IrO2 (OER). Such CoSn@NC holds a promise as air-cathode electrocatalyst in Zn-air battery, superior to Pt/C + IrO2 catalyst. First-principles calculations predict that CoSn alloys can upgrade charge redistribution on NC and promote the transfer to reactants, thus optimizing the adsorption strength of oxygen-containing intermediates to boost the overall reactivity. The tuning of oxygenate adsorption by interactions between alloy and heteroatom-doped carbon can guide the design of bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts.

     

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