Identifying the Key Role of Pyridinic‐N–Co Bonding in Synergistic Electrocatalysis for Reversible ORR/OER

• Published in: Advanced materials (Weinheim) Vol. 30; no. 23; pp. e1800005 - n/a
• Main Authors: Wang, Xue‐Rui, Liu, Jie‐Yu, Liu, Zi‐Wei, Wang, Wei‐Chao, Luo, Jun, Han, Xiao‐Peng, Du, Xi‐Wen, Qiao, Shi‐Zhang, Yang, Jing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.06.2018
• Subjects: Batteries; Bonding; Carbonaceous materials; Catalysis; Catalysts; Density functional theory; Dopants; Electrocatalysis; Electrocatalysts; graphenes; hybrid electrocatalysts; Hybrid systems; Materials science; Metal air batteries; Nitrogen; Noble metals; Oxygen evolution reactions; Oxygen reduction reactions; pyridinic nitrogen; pyrrolic nitrogen; spinels; Synergistic effect; Zinc-oxygen batteries; pyrrolic nitrogen; hybrid electrocatalysts; pyridinic nitrogen; spinels; graphenes

For many regenerative electrochemical energy‐conversion systems, hybrid electrocatalysts comprising transition metal (TM) oxides and heteroatom‐doped (e.g., nitrogen‐doped) carbonaceous materials are promising bifunctional oxygen reduction reaction/oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysts, whose e...