Citation: Guangying Zhang, Xu Liu, Peng Yu, Di Shen, Bowen Liu, Qiwen Pan, Lei Wang, Honggang Fu. Fe₃C coupled with Fe-N_x supported on N-doped carbon as oxygen reduction catalyst for assembling Zn-air battery to drive water splitting[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2022, 33(8): 3903-3908. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.11.075 shu

Fe₃C coupled with Fe-N_x supported on N-doped carbon as oxygen reduction catalyst for assembling Zn-air battery to drive water splitting

Guangying Zhang ^a ,
Xu Liu ^a ,
Peng Yu ^b ,
Di Shen ^a ,
Bowen Liu ^a ,
Qiwen Pan ^a ,
Lei Wang ^{a, *,} ,
Honggang Fu ^{a, *,}

a.
Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
b.
Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China

wanglei0525@hlju.edu.cn

fuhg@hlju.edu.cn

Received Date: 18 October 2021
Revised Date: 23 November 2021
Accepted Date: 25 November 2021
Available Online: 1 December 2021

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Fe-N-C structures have been considered as a candidate to replace noble metal catalysts towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) due to their excellent electrocatalytic activity and durability. Herein, a zinc-mediated synthesis strategy is proposed for N-doped graphitic porous carbon encapsulated uniform dispersed Fe₃C nanoparticles coupled with atomically dispersed Fe-N_x moieties (NPC/Fe-N-C) derived from biomass coconut shell. The introduction of zinc species could be conductive to the dispersion of iron species and formation of porous structures. Density functional theory calculations demonstrate that the N-doped carbon coating structures can weaken the oxygen intermediates adsorption energy barrier of Fe₃C. Beside, the graphitic carbon could promote the electron transfer during the electrochemical reaction. These special structures enable NPC/Fe-N-C to have excellent ORR activity with an E_onset of 1.0 V, which is much better than Pt/C. Furthermore, the zinc-air battery assembled by pairing NPC/Fe-N-C with a high-efficiency oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst can continuously and stably operate a charge-discharge potential gap of 0.8 V at 10 mA/cm² for more than 600 h. More importantly, the assembled batteries could drive overall water splitting device, realizing the effective energy conversion.
- Biomass,
- Iron-based catalyst,
- Synergy,
- Oxygen reduction,
- Zn-air battery
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