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Hollow catalysts through different etching treatments to improve active sites and oxygen vacancies for high-performance Li-O2 battery

Show Author's Information Jiachen Qiu1,§,  Yuran Lin1,§,  Shuting Zhang1,  Jie Ma1,  Yu Zhang3,  Mengwei Yuan2,  Genban Sun1,  Caiyun Nan1( )
Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Center for Advanced Materials Research, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

§ Jiachen Qiu and Yuran Lin contributed equally to this work.

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Li-O2 battery, oxygen vacancies, hollow structure, noble metal, active sites, cathode catalyst
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Qiu J, Lin Y, Zhang S, et al. Hollow catalysts through different etching treatments to improve active sites and oxygen vacancies for high-performance Li-O2 battery. Nano Research, 2023, 16(5): 6798-6804. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5330-2
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Li-O2 batteries are regarded as one of the most promising next-generation battery systems due to their high theoretical energy density, and finding effective cathode catalysts with fine-tuned structure is a key way to improve the performance. Herein, based on the structure of cubic zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), a series of hollow catalysts were synthesized by different chemical etching treatments. Firstly, from the perspective of metal, nickel nitrate is used for etching, and hollow Ni ZIF is obtained through Kirkendall effect. Secondly, hollow TA-ZIF is obtained by adding tannic acid to replace the methylimidazole ligand. Hollow structures have larger surface areas, and materials can expose more active sites, which can lead to better performance of Li-O2 batteries. On this basis, having more oxygen vacancies can also improve the battery performance. At the same time, further loading noble metal ruthenium on the synthesized cobalt-based catalyst can effectively reduce the overpotential of Li-O2 battery and improve the battery performance. For TA-ZIF with more stable hollow structure and more oxygen vacancies, the cycle performance reaches 330 cycles after loading Ru. Compared with the 64 cycles of solid Co3O4, it has a great improvement.


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Hollow catalysts through different etching treatments to improve active sites and oxygen vacancies for high-performance Li-O2 battery

Show Author's information Jiachen Qiu1,§, Yuran Lin1,§, Shuting Zhang1, Jie Ma1, Yu Zhang3, Mengwei Yuan2, Genban Sun1, Caiyun Nan1( )
Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Center for Advanced Materials Research, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

§ Jiachen Qiu and Yuran Lin contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Li-O2 batteries are regarded as one of the most promising next-generation battery systems due to their high theoretical energy density, and finding effective cathode catalysts with fine-tuned structure is a key way to improve the performance. Herein, based on the structure of cubic zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), a series of hollow catalysts were synthesized by different chemical etching treatments. Firstly, from the perspective of metal, nickel nitrate is used for etching, and hollow Ni ZIF is obtained through Kirkendall effect. Secondly, hollow TA-ZIF is obtained by adding tannic acid to replace the methylimidazole ligand. Hollow structures have larger surface areas, and materials can expose more active sites, which can lead to better performance of Li-O2 batteries. On this basis, having more oxygen vacancies can also improve the battery performance. At the same time, further loading noble metal ruthenium on the synthesized cobalt-based catalyst can effectively reduce the overpotential of Li-O2 battery and improve the battery performance. For TA-ZIF with more stable hollow structure and more oxygen vacancies, the cycle performance reaches 330 cycles after loading Ru. Compared with the 64 cycles of solid Co3O4, it has a great improvement.

Keywords: Li-O2 battery, oxygen vacancies, hollow structure, noble metal, active sites, cathode catalyst

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Received: 31 August 2022
Revised: 14 November 2022
Accepted: 15 November 2022
Published: 22 February 2023
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This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21606021 and 21771024).

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