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A bifunctional evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts are developed, based on codoped mesoporous carbon microspheres from ecofriendly biomass of eggs without the introduction of extrinsic dopants, via a facile and high‐throughput spray‐drying process. The obtained egg‐derived mesoporous carbon microspheres (egg‐CMS) present large specific surface area and high pore volume, as well as abundant dopant types including nitrogen, phosphorous, and iron that are originated from the innate protein and small organic molecule contents. When fabricated as OER or ORR catalysts, these egg‐CMS exhibit low onset potentials, high current densities, small Tafel slopes, and excellent stabilities. As a proof‐of‐concept, a rechargeable Zn‐air battery is demonstrated using the high‐active egg‐CMS as a bifunctional OER and ORR catalyst, suggesting the capability of utilizing full biomass materials for efficient energy storage and utilization.  相似文献   

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Efficient and cost‐effective bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are of vital importance in energy conversion and storage devices. Despite the recent progress in bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts, their unbalanced and insufficient OER and ORR activities has continued to pose challenges for the practical application of such energy devices. The design of highly integrated, high‐performance, bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts composed of highly graphitic nanoshells embedded in mesoporous carbon (GNS/MC) is reported. The GNS/MC exhibits very high oxygen electrode activity, which is one of the best performances among nonprecious metal bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts, and substantially outperforms Ir‐ and Pt‐based catalysts. Moreover, the GNS/MC shows excellent durability for both OER and ORR. In situ X‐ray absorption spectroscopy and square wave voltammetry reveal the roles of residual Ni and Fe entities in enhancing OER and ORR activities. Raman spectra indicate highly graphitic, defect‐rich nature of the GNS/MC, which can contribute to the enhanced OER activity and to high stability for the OER and ORR. In aqueous Na–air battery tests, the GNS/MC air cathode‐based cell exhibits superior performance to Ir/C‐ and Pt/C‐based batteries. Significantly, the GNS/MC‐based cell demonstrates the first example of rechargeable aqueous Na–air battery.  相似文献   

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The self‐standing electrode nanomaterials with highly effective bifunctional electrocatalysis for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (ORR/OER) are important for practical applications in metal–air batteries. Herein, a defect‐enriched and pyridinic‐N (PN) dominated bifunctional electrocatalyst with novel core–shell architecture (DN‐CP@G) is successfully fabricated by in situ exfoliating graphene from carbon paper followed by high temperature ammonia treatment. Benefitting from its strongly coupled core–shell structure, abundant defective sites and high‐content PN dopants, the DN‐CP@G displays an excellent electrocatalytic (ORR and OER) activity and stability in alkaline media, which are comparable to commercial Pt/C and Ir/C catalysts. The experiment, and theoretical calculations demonstrate that the electrocatalytic activities of carbon materials strongly depend on their defective sites and PN dopants. By directly using DN‐CP@G as a self‐standing electrode, the assembled zinc–air battery demonstrates a high discharge performance and outstanding long‐term cycle stability with at least 250 cycles, which is much superior to the mixed Pt/C and Ir/C electrodes. Remarkably, the DN‐CP@G based all‐solid‐state battery also reveals a good discharge and cycle performance. A facile and cost‐efficient approach to prepare highly effective bifunctional self‐standing electrode is provided by in situ generation of active sites on carbon support for metal–air batteries.  相似文献   

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Controlling active sites of metal‐free catalysts is an important strategy to enhance activity of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Many attempts have been made to develop metal‐free catalysts, but the lack of understanding of active‐sites at the atomic‐level has slowed the design of highly active and stable metal‐free catalysts. A sequential two‐step strategy to dope sulfur into carbon nanotube–graphene nanolobes is developed. This bidoping strategy introduces stable sulfur–carbon active‐sites. Fluorescence emission of the sulfur K‐edge by X‐ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (XANES) and scanning transmission electron microscopy electron energy loss spectroscopy (STEM‐EELS) mapping and spectra confirm that increasing the incorporation of heterocyclic sulfur into the carbon ring of CNTs not only enhances OER activity with an overpotential of 350 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm?2, but also retains 100% of stability after 75 h. The bidoped sulfur carbon nanotube–graphene nanolobes behave like the state‐of‐the‐art catalysts for OER but outperform those systems in terms of turnover frequency (TOF) which is two orders of magnitude greater than (20% Ir/C) at 400 mV overpotential with very high mass activity 1000 mA cm?2 at 570 mV. Moreover, the sulfur bidoping strategy shows high catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Stable bifunctional (ORR and OER) catalysts are low cost, and light‐weight bidoped sulfur carbon nanotubes are potential candidates for next‐generation metal‐free regenerative fuel cells.  相似文献   

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Development of highly active and stable bifunctional oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts from earth‐abundant elements remains a grand challenge for highly demanded reversible fuel cells and metal–air batteries. Carbon catalysts have many advantages over others due to their low cost, excellent electrical conductivity, high surface area, and easy functionalization. However, they typically cannot withstand the highly oxidative OER environment. Here, a new class of bifunctional electrocatalyst is reported, consisting of ultralarge sized nitrogen doped graphene tubes (N‐GTs) (>500 nm) decorated with FeCoNi alloy particles. These tubes are prepared from an inexpensive precursor, dicyandiamide, via a template‐free graphitization process. The ORR/OER activity and the stability of these graphene tube catalysts depend strongly on the transition metal precursors. The best performing FeCoNi‐derived N‐GT catalyst exhibits excellent ORR and OER activity along with adequate electrochemical durability over a wide potential window (0–1.9 V) in alkaline media. The measured OER current is solely due to desirable O2 evolution, rather than carbon oxidation. Extensive electrochemical and physical characterization indicated that high graphitization degree, thicker tube walls, proper nitrogen doping, and presence of FeCoNi alloy particles are vital for high bifunctional activity and electrochemical durability of tubular carbon catalysts.  相似文献   

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The development of high‐efficiency bifunctional electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (ORR/OER) is critical for rechargeable metal–air batteries, a typical electrochemical energy storage and conversion technology. This work reports a general approach for the synthesis of Pd@PdO–Co3O4 nanocubes using the zeolite‐type metal–organic framework (MOF) as a template. The as‐synthesized materials exhibit a high electrocatalytic activity toward OER and ORR, which is comparable to those of commercial RuO2 and Pt/C electrocatalysts, while its cycle performance and stability are much higher than those of commercial RuO2 and Pt/C electrocatalysts. Various physicochemical characterizations and density functional theory calculations indicate that the favorable electrochemical performance of the Pd@PdO–Co3O4 nanocubes is mainly attributed to the synergistic effect between PdO and the robust hollow structure composed of interconnected crystalline Co3O4 nanocubes. This work establishes an efficient approach for the controlled design and synthesis of MOF‐templated hybrid nanomaterials, and provides a great potential for developing high‐performance electrocatalysts in energy storage and conversion.  相似文献   

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Currently, it is still a significant challenge to simultaneously boost various reactions by one electrocatalyst with high activity, excellent durability, as well as low cost. Herein, hybrid trifunctional electrocatalysts are explored via a facile one‐pot strategy toward an efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The catalysts are rationally designed to be composed by FeCo nanoparticles encapsuled in graphitic carbon films, Co2P nanoparticles, and N,P‐codoped carbon nanofiber networks. The FeCo nanoparticles and the synergistic effect from Co2P and FeCo nanoparticles make the dominant contributions to the ORR, OER, and HER activities, respectively. Their bifunctional activity parameter (?E) for ORR and OER is low to 0.77 V, which is much smaller than those of most nonprecious metal catalysts ever reported, and comparable with state‐of‐the‐art Pt/C and RuO2 (0.78 V). Accordingly, the as‐assembled Zn–air battery exhibits a high power density of 154 mW cm?2 with a low charge–discharge voltage gap of 0.83 V (at 10 mA cm?2) and excellent stability. The as‐constructed overall water‐splitting cell achieves a current density of 10 mA cm?2 (at 1.68 V), which is comparable to the best reported trifunctional catalysts.  相似文献   

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It is urgently required to develop highly efficient and stable bifunctional non‐noble metal electrocatalysts for both the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for water splitting. In this study, a facile electrospinning followed by a post‐carbonization treatment to synthesize nitrogen‐doped carbon nanofibers (NCNFs) integrated with Ni and Mo2C nanoparticles (Ni/Mo2C‐NCNFs) as water splitting electrocatalysts is developed. Owing to the strong hydrogen binding energy on Mo2C and high electrical conductivity of Ni, synergetic effect between Ni and Mo2C nanoparticles significantly promote both HER and OER activities. The optimized hybrid (Ni/Mo2C(1:2)‐NCNFs) delivers low overpotentials of 143 mV for HER and 288 mV for OER at a current density of 10 mA cm?2. An alkaline electrolyzer with Ni/Mo2C(1:2)‐NCNFs as catalysts for both anode and cathode exhibits a current density of 10 mA cm?2 at a voltage of 1.64 V, which is only 0.07 V larger than the benchmark of Pt/C‐RuO2 electrodes. In addition, an outstanding long‐term durability during 100 h testing without obvious degradation is achieved, which is superior to most of the noble‐metal‐free electrocatalysts reported to date. This work provides a simple and effective approach for the preparation of low‐cost and high‐performance bifunctional electrocatalysts for efficient overall water splitting.  相似文献   

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Bifunctional oxygen catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with high activities and low‐cost are of prime importance and challenging in the development of fuel cells and rechargeable metal–air batteries. This study reports a porous carbon nanomaterial loaded with cobalt nanoparticles (Co@NC‐x/y) derived from pyrolysis of a Co/Zn bimetallic zeolitic imidazolite framework, which exhibits incredibly high activity as bifunctional oxygen catalysts. For instance, the optimal catalyst of Co@NC‐3/1 has the interconnected framework structure between porous carbon and embedded carbon nanotubes, which shows the superb ORR activity with onset potential of ≈1.15 V and half‐wave potential of ≈0.93 V. Moreover, it presents high OER activity that can be further enhanced to over commercial RuO2 by P‐doped with overpotentials of 1.57 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode at 10 mA cm?2 and long‐term stability for 2000 circles and a Tafel slope of 85 mV dec?1. Significantly, the nanomaterial demonstrates better catalytic performance and durability than Pt/C for ORR and commercial RuO2 and IrO2 for OER. These findings suggest the importance of a synergistic effect of graphitic carbon, nanotubes, exposed Co–Nx active sites, and interconnected framework structure of various carbons for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts.  相似文献   

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The development of efficient catalysts for both oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER)) is central to regenerative fuel cells and rechargeable metal–air batteries. It is highly desirable to achieve the efficient integration of dual active components into the catalysts and to understand the interaction between the dual components. Here, a facile approach is demonstrated to construct defective carbon–CoP nanoparticle hybrids as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts, and further probe the interfacial charge distribution behavior. By combining multiple synchrotron‐based X‐ray spectroscopic characterizations with density functional theory calculations, the interfacial charge polarization with the electrons gathering at the defective carbon surface and the holes gathering at the CoP surface due to strong interfacial coupling is revealed, which simultaneously facilitates the ORR and OER with remarkable bifunctional oxygen electrode activities. This work not only offers a bifunctional oxygen catalyst with outstanding performance, but also unravels the promoting factor of the hybrids from the view of interfacial charge distribution.  相似文献   

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Perovskite oxide ceramics attracts significant attention as a strong candidate of bifunctional oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst for the metal‐air batteries. Numerous approaches to the viability of bifunctional perovskite electrocatalyst represent that the electro­chemical performance is highly correlated with defect chemistry, surface structure, and overall polycrystalline perovskite structure. By making use of the intrinsic flexibility of internal structure and high nonstoichiometry in perovskite oxide, the heat treatment effect of the complex Ba0.5Sr0.5CoxFe1‐xO3‐δ (x = 0.2 and 0.8) perovskites in argon atmosphere at 950 °C (Ar‐BSCF5582 and Ar‐BSCF5528) on the surface structure/defect chemistry and electrocatalytic performance is intensively investigated. Upon heat‐treatment in argon atmosphere, the amorphous thickness layer increases from ≈20 to 180–200 nm in BSCF5582, while there is little change in BSCF5528 with ≈20 nm. The electrocatalytic performance of BSCF5582 catalyst both in ORR and OER deteriorates seriously, while Ar‐BSCF5528 demonstrates a significant increase of electro­chemical performance in ORR. This study demonstrates that the electrochemical performances of a perovskite catalyst can be significantly determined by the simultaneous modification of both surface structure and internal defect chemistry, which are explained with transmission electron microscopy and atomic‐selective X‐ray absorption fine structure analyses, respectively.  相似文献   

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Rational design and massive production of bifunctional catalysts with superior oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activities are essential for developing metal–air batteries and fuel cells. Herein, controllable large‐scale synthesis of sulfur‐doped CaMnO3 nanotubes is demonstrated via an electrospinning technique followed by calcination and sulfurization treatment. The sulfur doping can not only replace oxygen atoms to increase intrinsic electrical conductivity but also introduce abundant oxygen vacancies to provide enough catalytically active sites, which is further demonstrated by density functional theory calculation. The resulting sulfur‐modified CaMnO3 (CMO/S) exhibits better electrocatalytic activity for ORR and OER in alkaline solution with higher stability performance than the pristine CMO. These results highlight the importance of sulfur treatment as a facile yet effective strategy to improve the ORR and OER catalytic activity of the pristine CaMnO3. As a proof‐of‐concept, a rechargeable Zn–air battery using the bifunctional catalyst exhibits a small charge–discharge voltage polarization, and long cycling life. Furthermore, a solid‐state flexible and rechargeable Zn–air battery gives superior discharge–charge performance and remarkable stability. Therefore, the CMO/S nanotubes might be a promising replacement to the Pt‐based electrocatalysts for metal–air batteries and fuel cells.  相似文献   

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Ternary NiCoFe‐layered double hydroxide (NiCoIIIFe‐LDH) with Co3+ is grafted on nitrogen‐doped graphene oxide (N‐GO) by an in situ growth route. The array‐like colloid composite of NiCoIIIFe‐LDH/N‐GO is used as a bifunctional catalyst for both oxygen evolution/reduction reactions (OER/ORR). The NiCoIIIFe‐LDH/N‐GO array has a 3D open structure with less stacking of LDHs and an enlarged specific surface area. The hierarchical structure design and novel material chemistry endow high activity propelling O2 redox. By exposing more amounts of Ni and Fe active sites, the NiCoIIIFe‐LDH/N‐GO illustrates a relatively low onset potential (1.41 V vs reversible hydrogen electrode) in 0.1 mol L?1 KOH solution under the OER process. Furthermore, by introducing high valence Co3+, the onset potential of this material in ORR is 0.88 V. The overvoltage difference is 0.769 V between OER and ORR. The key factors for the excellent bifunctional catalytic performance are believed to be the Co with a high valence, the N‐doping of graphene materials, and the highly exposed Ni and Fe active sites in the array‐like colloid composite. This work further demonstrates the possibility to exploit the application potential of LDHs as OER and ORR bifunctional electrochemical catalysts.  相似文献   

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Rational design and construction of bifunctional electrocatalysts with excellent activity and durability is imperative for water splitting. Herein, a novel top‐down strategy to realize a hierarchical branched Mo‐doped sulfide/phosphide heterostructure (Mo‐Ni3S2/NixPy hollow nanorods), by partially phosphating Mo‐Ni3S2/NF flower clusters, is proposed. Benefitting from the optimized electronic structure configuration, hierarchical branched hollow nanorod structure, and abundant heterogeneous interfaces, the as‐obtained multisite Mo‐Ni3S2/NixPy/NF electrode has remarkable stability and bifunctional electrocatalytic activity in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)/oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in 1 m KOH solutions. It possesses an extremely low overpotential of 238 mV at the current density of 50 mA cm?2 for OER. Importantly, when assembled as anode and cathode simultaneously, it merely requires an ultralow cell voltage of 1.46 V to achieve the current density of 10 mA cm?2, with excellent durability for over 72 h, outperforming most of the reported Ni‐based bifunctional materials. Density functional theory results further confirm that the doped heterostructure can synergistically optimize Gibbs free energies of H and O‐containing intermediates (OH*, O*, and OOH*) during HER and OER processes, thus accelerating the catalytic kinetics of electrochemical water splitting. This work demonstrates the importance of the rational combination of metal doping and interface engineering for advanced catalytic materials.  相似文献   

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Rational construction of atomic‐scale interfaces in multiphase nanocomposites is an intriguing and challenging approach to developing advanced catalysts for both oxygen reduction (ORR) and evolution reactions (OER). Herein, a hybrid of interpenetrating metallic Co and spinel Co3O4 “Janus” nanoparticles stitched in porous graphitized shells (Co/Co3O4@PGS) is synthesized via ionic exchange and redox between Co2+ and 2D metal–organic‐framework nanosheets. This strategy is proven to effectively establish highways for the transfer of electrons and reactants within the hybrid through interfacial engineering. Specifically, the phase interpenetration of mixed Co species and encapsulating porous graphitized shells provides an optimal charge/mass transport environment. Furthermore, the defect‐rich interfaces act as atomic‐traps to achieve exceptional adsorption capability for oxygen reactants. Finally, robust coupling between Co and N through intimate covalent bonds prohibits the detachment of nanoparticles. As a result, Co/Co3O4@PGS outperforms state‐of‐the‐art noble‐metal catalysts with a positive half‐wave potential of 0.89 V for ORR and a low potential of 1.58 V at 10 mA cm?2 for OER. In a practical demonstration, ultrastable cyclability with a record lifetime of over 800 h at 10 mA cm?2 is achieved by Zn–air batteries with Co/Co3O4@PGS within the rechargeable air electrode.  相似文献   

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Overall water splitting involved hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are critical for renewable energy conversion and storage. Heteroatom‐doped carbon materials have been extensively employed as efficient electrocatalysts for independent HER or OER processes, while those as the bifunctional catalysts for simultaneously generating H2 and O2 by splitting water have been seldom reported. Inspired by the unparalleled virtues of polydopamine, the authors devise the facile synthesis of nitrogen and sulfur dual‐doped carbon nanotubes with in situ, homogenous and high concentration sulfur doping. The newly developed dual‐doped electrocatalysts display superb bifunctional catalytic activities for both HER and OER in alkaline solutions, outperforming all other reported carbon counterparts. Experimental characterizations confirm that the excellent performance is attributed to the multiple doping together with efficient mass and charge transfer, while theoretical computations reveal the promotion effect of secondary sulfur dopant to enhance the spin density of dual‐doped samples and consequently to form highly electroactive sites for both HER and OER.  相似文献   

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The inhibitively high cost of the noble‐metal‐containing materials has become a major obstacle for the large‐scale application of rechargeable zinc‐air batteries (ZABs). To solve this problem in a practical way, a green and scalable method to prepare sandwich‐like reduced graphene oxide /carbon black/amorphous cobalt borate nanocomposites (rGO/CB/Co‐Bi) is reported. These composites are shown to be a highly efficient and robust bifunctional electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In this system, the spontaneous assembly of the GO sheet and CB nanoparticles is demonstrated by noncovalent interactions to build the sandwich‐like structure with hierarchical pore distribution. The impressive ORR and OER activities of the obtained nanocomposite are attributed to the high conductivity, large surface area, and the hierarchically porous channels. With room‐temperature synthesis and significant activities shown in the demonstrative battery test, the prepared nanocomposite can potentially serve as an alternative for noble‐metal‐based rechargeable ZAB cathode materials.  相似文献   

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The surface of solid catalysts is one of the most important factors where the interface with reaction products governs the reaction kinetics. Herein, the crystal phase of palladium–copper nanoparticles (PdCu NPs) is controlled to modulate their surface atomic arrangement, which will govern the growth dynamics of discharge products on their surfaces and thus the catalytic performances in non‐aqueous lithium–oxygen (Li‐O2) batteries. First‐principles calculations and experimental validations reveal that homogeneous nucleation and distribution of discharge products are observed on the surface of body‐centered cubic PdCu NPs, promoting the oxygen reduction/evolution reaction (ORR/OER) activities in Li‐O2 batteries. However, the agglomerates formed on the surface of its face‐centered cubic homologue deteriorates ORR/OER activities, which worsen the battery performances. For the first time, this work theoretically and experimentally demonstrates how the crystal phase modulation regulates the nucleation behaviors and growth dynamics of discharge products for ORR/OER.  相似文献   

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Water splitting is a promising technology for sustainable conversion of hydrogen energy. The rational design of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) bifunctional electrocatalysts with superior activity and stability in the same electrolyte is the key to promoting their large‐scale applications. Herein, an ultralow Ru (1.08 wt%) transition metal phosphide on nickel foam (Ru–MnFeP/NF) derived from Prussian blue analogue, that effectively drivies both the OER and the HER in 1 m KOH, is reported. To reach 20 mA cm?2 for OER and 10 mA cm?2 for HER, the Ru–MnFeP/NF electrode only requires overpotentials of 191 and 35 mV, respectively. Such high electrocatalytic activity exceeds most transition metal phosphides for the OER and the HER, and even reaches Pt‐like HER electrocatalytic levels. Accordingly, it significantly accelerates full water splitting at 10 mA cm?2 with 1.470 V, which outperforms that of the integrated RuO2 and Pt/C couple electrode (1.560 V). In addition, the extremely long operational stability (50 h) and the successful demonstration of a solar‐to‐hydrogen generation system through full water splitting provide more flexibility for large‐scale applications of Ru–MnFeP/NF catalysts.  相似文献   

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