Abstract
It is imperative to design and manufacture electrocatalysts towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for popularization of rechargeable Zn-air batteries. Herein, FeNi alloy confined in N-doped carbon nanosheets (FeNi@NCSs) was harvested via a facile complexation-pyrolysis strategy from the mixture of guanine and metal chlorides. After strictly exploring the pyrolysis temperature and metal types, the resulted FeNi@NCSs showed greatly improved performances on both the ORR (onset potential of 0.93V and half-wave potential of 0.84V) and OER (overpotential of 318mV at 10mAcm-2 and 379mV at 100mAcm-2). Further, the FeNi@NCSs based Zn-air battery exhibited a higher open circuit voltage (1.496V), a larger power density (128.8mWcm-2), and prominent durability (360 cycles, 120h). This study provides an appealing approach to utilize biomass for synthesis of low-cost and high-efficiency electrocatalysts in energy associated systems.
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