Carbon-based electrocatalysts for rechargeable Zn–air batteries: design concepts, recent progress and future perspectives

X Zou, M Tang, Q Lu, Y Wang, Z Shao… - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
With increasing interest in energy storage solutions, rapid progress has been made by
researchers in the area of rechargeable Zn–air batteries (R-ZABs), which offer multiple …

Carbon-based electrodes for advanced zinc-air batteries: oxygen-catalytic site regulation and nanostructure design

W Shao, R Yan, M Zhou, L Ma, C Roth, T Ma… - Electrochemical Energy …, 2023 - Springer
Zn-air batteries are highly attractive for direct chemical-to-electrical energy conversion and
for solving the energy crisis and environmental problems. Designing efficient oxygen …

Science and engineering for non-noble-metal-based electrocatalysts to boost their ORR performance: A critical review

SD Bhoyate, J Kim, FM de Souza, J Lin, E Lee… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Metal-air batteries (MABs) and fuel cells (FCs) critically rely on electrocatalytic O 2 activation,
and O 2 reduction reaction (ORR), with noble metal-free materials. However, the inception of …

Mutual self-regulation of d-electrons of single atoms and adjacent nanoparticles for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis and rechargeable zinc-air batteries

S Chandrasekaran, R Hu, L Yao, L Sui, Y Liu… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are a promising energy conversion device, which
rely critically on electrocatalysts to accelerate their rate-determining reactions such as …

MoC quantum dots@ N‐doped‐carbon for low‐cost and efficient hydrogen evolution reaction: from electrocatalysis to photocatalysis

X Zhou, Y Tian, J Luo, B **, Z Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sustainable and highly efficient non‐noble metal catalysts could facilitate the realization of
closed‐loop and carbon‐neutral hydrogen (H2) economy via low‐cost electrocatalytic (EC) …

Research progress on the construction of synergistic electrocatalytic ORR/OER self-supporting cathodes for zinc–air batteries

Q Liu, L Wang, H Fu - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Zn–air batteries (ZABs) have developed rapidly as novel energy storage devices to replace
metal-ion batteries. However, the kinetics of the air-cathode is slow, and thus it is necessary …

CoN nanoparticles anchored on ultra-thin N-doped graphene as the oxygen reduction electrocatalyst for highly stable zinc-air batteries

S Wu, D Deng, E Zhang, H Li, L Xu - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Transition metal nitrides anchored on carbon as oxygen reduction catalysts are widely used
in zinc-air batteries. However, the size of transition metal nitrides and the thickness of carbon …

Anchoring sub‐nanometer Pt clusters on crumpled paper‐like MXene enables high hydrogen evolution mass activity

Y Wu, W Wei, R Yu, L **a, X Hong, J Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Platinum (Pt)‐based electrocatalysts are the benchmark catalysts for hydrogen evolution
reaction (HER); however, they are limited by the scarcity and high price. Introducing an …

Robust Electronic Correlation of Co‐CoN4 Hybrid Active Sites for Durable Rechargeable Zn‐Air Batteries

K Ding, J Hu, J Luo, L Zhao, W **, Y Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rational design of bifunctional catalysts with excellent activity and stability toward the
oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is essential for …

Wood carbon based single-atom catalyst for rechargeable Zn–air batteries

L Zhong, C Jiang, M Zheng, X Peng, T Liu, S **… - ACS Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Low-cost and efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)/oxygen evolution reaction (OER)
bifunctional electrocatalysts are vital for the applications of rechargeable Zn–air batteries …