Controlled Synthesis of Co@N-Doped Carbon by Pyrolysis of ZIF with 2-Aminobenzimidazole Ligand for Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Reaction and the Application in Zn-Air Battery

Minghui Zhang; Erhuan Zhang; Chunyan Hu; Yong Zhao; Han Ming Zhang; Yijie Zhang; Muwei Ji; Jiali Yu; Guangtao Cong; Huichao Liu; Jiatao Zhang; Caizhen Zhu; Jian Xu

doi:10.1021/acsami.9b22476

Controlled Synthesis of Co@N-Doped Carbon by Pyrolysis of ZIF with 2-Aminobenzimidazole Ligand for Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Reaction and the Application in Zn-Air Battery

Minghui Zhang, Erhuan Zhang, Chunyan Hu, Yong Zhao, Han Ming Zhang, Yijie Zhang, Muwei Ji^*, Jiali Yu, Guangtao Cong, Huichao Liu, Jiatao Zhang, Caizhen Zhu, Jian Xu

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The Co/N-doped carbon material, as an important electrocatalytic material, has been attracted intense interest in ORR and Zn-air battery. Here, we report an efficient Co@N-doped carbon catalyst (Co@N-C-1) obtained by pyrolysis of ZIF precursor with 2-aminobenzimidazole. The introduction of 2-aminobenzimidazole results in the formation of hierarchical meso/microporous structure of the as-prepared Co@N-C-1, effectively avoiding the aggregation of Co nanoparticles during pyrolysis and the higher N content, which contributes to enhance the ORR electrocatalytic activities. The obtained Co@N-C-1 exhibits remarkable ORR performance with a half-wave potential of 0.938 V vs RHE in alkaline media. As the air catalyst of zinc-air batteries, Co@N-C-1 displays 1.439 V of open-circuit voltage and 1413.3 Wh·kg^-1 of energy density.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11693-11701
Number of pages	9
Journal	ACS applied materials & interfaces
Volume	12
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b22476
Publication status	Published - 11 Mar 2020

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2-aminobenzimidazole
Co@N-doped carbon
ZIF precursor
Zn-air battery
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)

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Zhang, M., Zhang, E., Hu, C., Zhao, Y., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, Y., Ji, M., Yu, J., Cong, G., Liu, H., Zhang, J., Zhu, C., & Xu, J. (2020). Controlled Synthesis of Co@N-Doped Carbon by Pyrolysis of ZIF with 2-Aminobenzimidazole Ligand for Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Reaction and the Application in Zn-Air Battery. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 12(10), 11693-11701. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b22476

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Zhang, M, Zhang, E, Hu, C, Zhao, Y, Zhang, HM, Zhang, Y, Ji, M, Yu, J, Cong, G, Liu, H, Zhang, J, Zhu, C & Xu, J 2020, 'Controlled Synthesis of Co@N-Doped Carbon by Pyrolysis of ZIF with 2-Aminobenzimidazole Ligand for Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Reaction and the Application in Zn-Air Battery', ACS applied materials & interfaces, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 11693-11701. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b22476

Controlled Synthesis of Co@N-Doped Carbon by Pyrolysis of ZIF with 2-Aminobenzimidazole Ligand for Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Reaction and the Application in Zn-Air Battery. / Zhang, Minghui; Zhang, Erhuan; Hu, Chunyan et al.
In: ACS applied materials & interfaces, Vol. 12, No. 10, 11.03.2020, p. 11693-11701.

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Controlled Synthesis of Co@N-Doped Carbon by Pyrolysis of ZIF with 2-Aminobenzimidazole Ligand for Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Reaction and the Application in Zn-Air Battery

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