Citation: YANG Xiao-Kun, CHEN A-Ling, YI Qing-Feng. Easy Preparation of N-Doped Graphene-like Nanosheets as Excellent Metal-Free Cathodic Electrocatalysts of Zn-Air Battery[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2021, 37(1): 157-170. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2021.001 shu

Easy Preparation of N-Doped Graphene-like Nanosheets as Excellent Metal-Free Cathodic Electrocatalysts of Zn-Air Battery

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School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, Hunan 411201, China
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Hunan Provincial Key Lab of Advanced Materials for New Energy Storage and Conversion, Xiangtan, Hunan 411201, China

Corresponding author: YI Qing-Feng, yqfyy2001@hnust.edu.cn
Received Date: 19 July 2020
Revised Date: 28 October 2020

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Carbon-based materials have been paid much attention due to their own good electroactivity and resources availability. Herein, we reported a simple and versatile synthesis strategy for the preparation of nitrogen-doped and metal-free carbon catalysts with excellent oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electroactivity. Using dicyandiamide (DCD) as nitrogen source and sucrose, β-cyclodextrin and chitosan as different carbon sources, N-doped graphene-like nanosheet samples CN-nanosh(suc), CN-nanosh(cyc) and CN-nanosh(ch) were prepared by an easy pyrolysis of their mixture. The samples exhibited outstanding ORR electroactivity in alkaline media with a comparable performance to the benchmark Pt/C. Alkaline Zn-air battery with the prepared sample CN-nanosh(suc) as the cathodic catalyst displayed the maximum power density of 201.33 mW·cm^-2, and its discharge time can last for more than 50 h at a constant current density of 100 mA·cm^-2, which is close to the optimum values of the similar Zn-air battery with the metal-free cathodic electrocatalysts reported so far.
- oxygen reduction reaction,
- Zn-air battery,
- electrochemistry,
- energy conversion,
- nanoparticles
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