An efficient and durable trifunctional electrocatalyst for zinc–air batteries driven overall water splitting

Natarajan Logeshwaran; Shanmugam Ramakrishnan; Selvaraj Selva Chandrasekaran; Mohanraj Vinothkannan; Ae Rhan Kim; Sivaprakash Sengodan; Dhinesh Babu Velusamy; Purushothaman Varadhan; Jr Hau He; Dong Jin Yoo

doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120405

An efficient and durable trifunctional electrocatalyst for zinc–air batteries driven overall water splitting

Natarajan Logeshwaran
, Shanmugam Ramakrishnan
, Selvaraj Selva Chandrasekaran
, Mohanraj Vinothkannan
, Ae Rhan Kim
, Sivaprakash Sengodan
, Dhinesh Babu Velusamy
, Purushothaman Varadhan
, Jr Hau He
, Dong Jin Yoo^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Biological Sciences

Jeonbuk National University
Université Grenoble Alpes
Imperial College London
University of Cambridge
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
City University of Hong Kong

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Abstract

Constructing more active and durable trifunctional electrocatalysts is key for boosting overall water splitting and metal–air battery efficiency. Herein, we developed a trifunctional electrocatalyst of ultrafine Pt nanoparticles anchored on CoS₂-N-doped reduced graphene oxide (Pt@CoS₂-NrGO). Owing to its more Pt active sites with rapid ion/electron transport ability, the Pt@CoS₂-NrGO shows excellent trifunctional activities towards HER (ƞ₁₀ = 39 mV), OER (ƞ₁₀ = 235 mV) ORR (E_1/2 = 0.85 V vs. RHE) and water splitting device of Pt@CoS₂-NrGO||Pt@CoS₂-NrGO achieved cell voltage of 1.48 V at 10 mA cm⁻², which is better than Pt-C||RuO₂. Finally, we employed Pt@CoS₂-NrGO as air cathode for zinc–air battery to display a power density of 114 mW cm^-2 and durability of 55 h, outperforming than Pt-C + RuO₂ based zinc–air batteries. For practical aspects, Pt@CoS₂-NrGO based zinc–air batteries were connected to overall water splitting device to produce H₂ and O₂ gases for hydrogen fuel cell.

Original language	English
Article number	120405
Journal	Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
Volume	297
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120405
State	Published - 2021.11.15

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Keywords

Density functional theory
Overall water splitting
Pt@CoS-NrGO
Trifunctional electrocatalyst
Zinc–air battery

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

Environmental Sciences
Engineering - Petroleum
Engineering - Chemical

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Logeshwaran, N., Ramakrishnan, S., Chandrasekaran, S. S., Vinothkannan, M., Kim, A. R., Sengodan, S., Velusamy, D. B., Varadhan, P., He, J. H., & Yoo, D. J. (2021). An efficient and durable trifunctional electrocatalyst for zinc–air batteries driven overall water splitting. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 297, Article 120405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120405

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