Abstract
The discovery of low-cost and high-performance bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts is vital to the future commercialization of rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs). Herein, a Fe single atom seed-mediated strategy is reported for the fabrication of Fe3 C species closely surrounded by FeN4 C active sites with strong electronic interactions built between them and more importantly, creating optimized coordination environment, via subtly adjusting their ratio, for favorable adsorption energies of oxygen intermediates formed during oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Concretely, the voltage difference (ΔE) between the ORR half-wave and OER potential at a current density of 10mA cm-2 for the compositionally-optimized FeNC/Fe3 C-op electrocatalyst is only 0.668V, endowing itself one of the best bifunctional OER/ORR benchmarks. As a demo, ZABs assembled with FeNC/Fe3 C-op as the air cathode deliver a remarkable specific capacity (818.1 mAh gZn -1 ) and a power density (1013.9 mWh gZn -1 ), along with excellent long-term durability (>450h). This work extends the methodology to modulate the activity of FeN4 C atomic site, undoubtedly inspiring wide explorations on the precise design of bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts.
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