1. Nitrogen, sulfur co-coordinated iron single-atom catalysts with the optimized electronic structure for highly efficient oxygen reduction in Zn-air battery and fuel cell.
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Xu, Hao, Li, Ruopeng, Liu, Huan, Sun, Weiyan, Bai, Jie, Lu, Xiangyu, and Yang, Peixia
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IRON catalysts , *ELECTRONIC structure , *FUEL cells , *OXYGEN reduction , *IRON , *CATALYTIC activity , *SULFUR , *NITROGEN - Abstract
Coordination environment engineering is developed to synthesize Fe SA /NSC catalysts with the tailored N, S co-coordinated Fe atomic site. [Display omitted] • The Fe-N 3 S active site with the optimized electronic structure is constructed. • S doping promotes the OH* desorption, thus leading to enhanced kinetics process. • The catalyst displays impressive ORR activity in both alkaline and acidic mediums. • The catalyst exhibits excellent performance in Zn-air batteries and fuel cells. Atomically dispersed iron–nitrogen-carbon (FesbndNsbndC) materials have been considered ideal catalysts for the oxygen reduction. Unfortunately, designing and adjusting the electronic structure of single-atom Fe sites to boost the kinetics and activity still faces grand challenges. In this work, the coordination environment engineering is developed to synthesize the Fe SA /NSC catalyst with the tailored N, S co-coordinated Fe atomic site (Fe-N 3 S site). The structural characterizations and theoretical calculations demonstrate that the incorporation of sulfur can optimize the charge distribution of Fe atoms to weaken the adsorption of OH* and facilitate the desorption of OH*, thus leading to enhanced kinetics process and intrinsic activity. As a result, the S-modified Fe SA /NSC exhibits outstanding catalytic activity with the half-wave potentials (E 1/2) of 0.915 V and 0.797 V, as well as good stability, in alkaline and acidic electrolytes, respectively. Impressively, the excellent performance of Fe SA /NSC is further confirmed in Zn-air batteries (ZABs) and fuel cells, with high peak power densities (146 mW cm−2 and 0.259 W cm−2). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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