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- Title
Single‐Atomic‐Co Electrocatalysts with Self‐Supported Architecture toward Oxygen‐Involved Reaction.
- Authors
Xie, Wenfu; Song, Yuke; Li, Shijin; Li, Jianbo; Yang, Yusen; Liu, Wei; Shao, Mingfei; Wei, Min
- Abstract
Single‐atomic electrocatalysts (SACs) have shown great promise in electrocatalysis fields owing to their theoretical maximum atom utilization (100%). Yet still, it is far from expectation in practical applications due to entrapping within supports and blocking by aggregation. Herein, self‐supported carbon nanosheet arrays consisting of single‐atomic Co electrocatalyst (SS‐Co‐SAC) toward oxygen‐involved reaction and zinc–air batteries are reported. Impressively, the as‐synthesized SS‐Co‐SAC gives a markedly enhanced utilization of active sites (≈22.3%@2.3 wt%) as a result of single‐atomic dispersion of Co within a unique nanosheet arrays architecture, which is the largest value among other reported results. Benefiting from the high utilization of active sites, the SS‐Co‐SAC electrode exhibits outstanding electrocatalytic performance for both oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Notably, the turnover frequency value for ORR is determined to be ≈9.26 s−1, which stands for the highest level among noble metal‐free electrocatalysts reported previously. Moreover, as an air‐cathode for zinc–air batteries with SS‐Co‐SAC, a power density of 195.1 mW cm−2 and a robust durability are achieved. It is believed that this study would guide the future design of highly active and durable single‐atom catalysts for both fundamental research and practical applications.
- Subjects
SACRAMENTO (Calif.); OXYGEN evolution reactions; ELECTROCATALYSTS; MICROBIAL fuel cells; ARCHITECTURE; POWER density; OXYGEN reduction; ALKALINE batteries
- Publication
Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, Vol 29, Issue 50, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1616-301X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/adfm.201906477