Abstract
Metal oxides of earth-abundant elements are promising electrocatalysts to overcome the sluggish oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reaction (OER/ORR) in many electrochemical energy-conversion devices. However, it is difficult to control their catalytic activity precisely. Here, a general three-stage synthesis strategy is described to produce a family of hybrid materials comprising amorphous bimetallic oxide nanoparticles anchored on N-doped reduced graphene oxide with simultaneous control of nanoparticle elemental composition, size, and crystallinity. Amorphous Fe0.5 Co0.5 Ox is obtained from Prussian blue analog nanocrystals, showing excellent OER activity with a Tafel slope of 30.1 mV dec-1 and an overpotential of 257 mV for 10 mA cm-2 and superior ORR activity with a large limiting current density of -5.25 mA cm-2 at 0.6 V. A fabricated Zn-air battery delivers a specific capacity of 756 mA h gZn-1 (corresponding to an energy density of 904 W h kgZn-1 ), a peak power density of 86 mW cm-2 and can be cycled over 120 h at 10 mA cm-2 . Other two amorphous bimetallic, Ni0.4 Fe0.6 Ox and Ni0.33 Co0.67 Ox , are also produced to demonstrate the general applicability of this method for synthesizing binary metal oxides with controllable structures as electrocatalysts for energy conversion.
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