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ZIF-8/LiFePO4 derived Fe-N-P Co-doped carbon nanotube encapsulated Fe2P nanoparticles for efficient oxygen reduction and Zn-air batteries

Show Author's Information Huihui Jin1,  Huang Zhou1,  Pengxia Ji1,  Chengtian Zhang1,  Jiahuan Luo1,3,  Weihao Zeng1,  Chenxi Hu1,  Daping He1,2( ),  Shichun Mu1( )
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Hubei Engineering Research Center of RF-Microwave Technology and Application, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Anyang Institute of Technology, Anyang 455000, China
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oxygen reduction reaction, LiFePO4, waste utilization, ZIF-8, heteroatoms-doped
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Carbon nanotubesElectrolytesElectrolytic reduction Ion batteriesIronIron researchLithiumLithium compoundsNanocatalystsOxygenOxygen reduction reaction Zinc compounds
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Jin H, Zhou H, Ji P, et al. ZIF-8/LiFePO4 derived Fe-N-P Co-doped carbon nanotube encapsulated Fe2P nanoparticles for efficient oxygen reduction and Zn-air batteries. Nano Research, 2020, 13(3): 818-823. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2702-3
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Iron-based oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts have been the focus of research, and iron sources play an important role for the preparation of efficient ORR catalysts. Here, we successfully use LiFePO4 as ideal sources of Fe and P to construct the heteroatom doped Fe-based carbon materials. The obtained Fe-N-P co-doped coral-like carbon nanotube arrays encapsulated Fe2P catalyst (C-ZIF/LFP) shows very high half-wave potential of 0.88 V in alkaline electrolytes toward ORR, superior to Pt/C (0.85 V), and also presents a high half-wave potential of 0.74 V in acidic electrolytes, comparable to Pt/C (0.8 V). When further applied into a home-made Zn-air battery as cathode, a peak power density of 140 mW·cm-2 is reached, exceeds commercial Pt/C (110 mW·cm-2). Besides, it also presents exceptional durability and methanol resistance compared with Pt/C. Noticeably, the preparation method of such a high-performance catalyst is simple and easy to optimize, suitable for the large-scale production. What’s more, it opens up a more sustainable development scenario to reduce the hazardous wastes such as LiFePO4 by directly using them for preparing high-performance ORR catalysts.


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ZIF-8/LiFePO4 derived Fe-N-P Co-doped carbon nanotube encapsulated Fe2P nanoparticles for efficient oxygen reduction and Zn-air batteries

Show Author's information Huihui Jin1, Huang Zhou1, Pengxia Ji1, Chengtian Zhang1, Jiahuan Luo1,3, Weihao Zeng1, Chenxi Hu1, Daping He1,2( ), Shichun Mu1( )
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Hubei Engineering Research Center of RF-Microwave Technology and Application, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Anyang Institute of Technology, Anyang 455000, China

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Iron-based oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts have been the focus of research, and iron sources play an important role for the preparation of efficient ORR catalysts. Here, we successfully use LiFePO4 as ideal sources of Fe and P to construct the heteroatom doped Fe-based carbon materials. The obtained Fe-N-P co-doped coral-like carbon nanotube arrays encapsulated Fe2P catalyst (C-ZIF/LFP) shows very high half-wave potential of 0.88 V in alkaline electrolytes toward ORR, superior to Pt/C (0.85 V), and also presents a high half-wave potential of 0.74 V in acidic electrolytes, comparable to Pt/C (0.8 V). When further applied into a home-made Zn-air battery as cathode, a peak power density of 140 mW·cm-2 is reached, exceeds commercial Pt/C (110 mW·cm-2). Besides, it also presents exceptional durability and methanol resistance compared with Pt/C. Noticeably, the preparation method of such a high-performance catalyst is simple and easy to optimize, suitable for the large-scale production. What’s more, it opens up a more sustainable development scenario to reduce the hazardous wastes such as LiFePO4 by directly using them for preparing high-performance ORR catalysts.

Keywords: oxygen reduction reaction, LiFePO4, waste utilization, ZIF-8, heteroatoms-doped

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Received: 30 November 2019
Revised: 18 January 2020
Accepted: 06 February 2020
Published: 26 February 2020
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This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFA0202603) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51672204).

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