Sustainable zinc–air battery chemistry: advances, challenges and prospects

Q Wang, S Kaushik, X **ao, Q Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable zinc–air batteries (ZABs) are considered promising energy storage devices
owing to their inherent safety, high energy density, wide operating temperature window …

Zn-based batteries for sustainable energy storage: strategies and mechanisms

L Tang, H Peng, J Kang, H Chen, M Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Batteries play a pivotal role in various electrochemical energy storage systems, functioning
as essential components to enhance energy utilization efficiency and expedite the …

Tailoring oxygen reduction reaction kinetics of Fe− N− C catalyst via spin manipulation for efficient zinc–air batteries

H Zhang, HC Chen, S Feizpoor, L Li… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The interaction between oxygen species and metal sites of various orbitals exhibits intimate
correlation with the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) kinetics. Herein, a new approach for …

Co-catalytic metal–support interactions in single-atom electrocatalysts

L Gloag, SV Somerville, JJ Gooding… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are advantageous because every active atom is exposed at
the surface, ensuring maximum utilization of catalytically active metals. To optimize the …

Bifunctional single atom catalysts for rechargeable zinc–air batteries: from dynamic mechanism to rational design

P Zhang, K Chen, J Li, M Wang, M Li, Y Liu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ever‐growing demands for rechargeable zinc–air batteries (ZABs) call for efficient
bifunctional electrocatalysts. Among various electrocatalysts, single atom catalysts (SACs) …

A Janus dual-atom catalyst for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction and evolution

B Tang, Y Zhou, Q Ji, Z Zhuang, L Zhang, C Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dual-atom catalysts, which exhibit high activity and atom utilization, show promise for
sustainable energy conversion and storage technologies. However, the rational design and …

Derived-2D Nb4C3Tx sheets with interfacial self-assembled Fe-NC single-atom catalyst for electrocatalysis in water splitting and durable zinc-air battery

M ul Haq, DH Wu, Z Ajmal, QD Ruan, S Khan… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
In pursuit of advanced nanocatalysts with multifunctionality, cost-effectiveness and durability
for water splitting and zinc-air batteries, we unveil a novel strategy by combination of …

Oxygen reduction kinetics of Fe–N–C single atom catalysts boosted by pyridinic N vacancy for temperature-adaptive Zn–Air batteries

L Lyu, X Hu, S Lee, W Fan, G Kim, J Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The design of temperature-adaptive Zn–air batteries (ZABs) with long life spans and high
energy efficiencies is challenging owing to sluggish oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) …

Self-carbon-thermal-reduction strategy for boosting the Fenton-like activity of single Fe-N4 sites by carbon-defect engineering

S Wei, Y Sun, YZ Qiu, A Li, CY Chiang, H **ao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Carbon-defect engineering in metal single-atom catalysts by simple and robust strategy,
boosting their catalytic activity, and revealing the carbon defect-catalytic activity relationship …

Coordination engineering in single-site catalysts: General principles, characterizations, and recent advances

H Wang, T Yang, J Wang, Z Zhou, Z Pei, S Zhao - Chem, 2024 - cell.com
Single-site catalysts (SSCs) have long been considered to be promising candidates for
heterogeneous catalysis due to the maximum exposure of metal sites at the catalytic …