Carbon Fiber Film with Multi-Hollow Channels to Expedite Oxygen Electrocatalytic Reaction Kinetics for Flexible Zn-Air Battery

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第一作者： Li, Tingzhen

作者： Li, Tingzhen;Liu, Yijun;Huang, Yongfa;Zhang, Lei;Chen, Zehong;Yang, Wu;Shi, Ge;Zhou, Jiawei;Zou, Ren;Gan, Jianyun;Zhong, Linxin;Peng, Xinwen;Liu, Yijun

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关键词： bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis; flexible free-standing electrodes; hollow carbon fiber films; lignin; zinc-air battery

期刊名称：SMALL （ 影响因子：13.3； 五年影响因子：13.2 ）

ISSN： 1613-6810

年卷期： 2024 年

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： The high oxygen electrocatalytic overpotential of flexible cathodes due to sluggish reaction kinetics result in low energy conversion efficiency of wearable zinc-air batteries (ZABs). Herein, lignin, as a 3D flexible carbon-rich macromolecule, is employed for partial replacement of polyacrylonitrile and constructing flexible freestanding air electrodes (FFAEs) with large amount of mesopores and multi-hollow channels via electrospinning combined with annealing strategy. The presence of lignin with disordered structure decreases the graphitization of carbon fibers, increases the structural defects, and optimizes the pore structure, facilitating the enhancement of electron-transfer kinetics. This unique structure effectively improves the accessibility of graphitic-N/pyridinic-N with oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity and pyridinic-N with oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity for FFAEs, accelerating the mass transfer process of oxygen-active species. The resulting N-doped hollow carbon fiber films (NHCFs) exhibit superior bifunctional ORR/OER performance with a low potential difference of only 0.60 V. The rechargeable ZABs with NHCFs as metal-free cathodes possess a long-term cycling stability. Furthermore, the NHCFs can be used as FFAEs for flexible ZABs which have a high specific capacity and good cycling stability under different bending states. This work paves the way to design and produce highly active metal-free bifunctional FFAEs for electrochemical energy devices. The electrospinning strategy combined with pore-controlled engineering to effectively construct highly accessible active graphitic-N/pyridinic-N sites on the lignin-based flexible freestanding air electrode (FFAE) with multi-hollow channel structures, resulting in excellent ORR/OER activity and high-performance flexible zinc-air batteries. This work provides a potential way to design and produce high-performance biomass-based bifunctional FFAE for electrochemical energy devices. image

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