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Co3O4 nanocage derived from metal-organic frameworks: An excellent cathode catalyst for rechargeable Li-O2 battery

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Rechargeable non-aqueous Li-O2 battery is regarded as one of the most promising energy-storage technologies on account of its high energy density. It is believed that the rational design of three-dimensional (3D) architecture for catalyst is a key factor for the remarkable performance. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) derived materials possess excellent architecture, which is beneficial for Li-O2 batteries. In this work, ZIF-67 is used as precursor template and calcinated under different temperature to produce Co3O4 crystals. When the anneal treatment is under 350 °C, the derived Co3O4 nanocage holds the most complete skeleton, which provides better charge transfer ability as well as O2 and Li+ diffusion. Meanwhile, the Co3O4 nanocage owns more oxygen vacancies, offering more active sites. With the synergistic effect of nanocage structure and active sites, the Co3O4 nanocage stably delivers a large specific capacity of 15,500 mAh·g-1 as well as a long cycle-life of 132 cycles at limited discharge capacity of 1,000 mAh·g-1 under discharge/charge current density of 0.5 A·g-1.

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This work supported financially by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2016YFB0100200); Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum, Beijing (C201604, No. 2462014YJRC003) and State key laboratory of physical chemistry of solid surfaces, Xiamen University (No. 201703

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    Zhuoliang Jiang, Hui Sun, Wenke Shi, Jianyong Hu, Jingyang Cheng & Pengfei Hu

  2. State Key Lab of PCOSS, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China

    Shigang Sun

  3. Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Strasse 8, D-64287, Darmstadt, Germany

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Jiang, Z., Sun, H., Shi, W. et al. Co3O4 nanocage derived from metal-organic frameworks: An excellent cathode catalyst for rechargeable Li-O2 battery. Nano Res. 12, 1555–1562 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-019-2388-6

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