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Amino-substituted binuclear phthalocyanines bonding with multi-wall carbon nanotube as efficient electrocatalysts for lithium-thionyl chloride battery

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In this work, carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-templated binuclear metallophthalocyanines (MTAPcCF3)2C (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) assemblies (MTAPcCF3)2C–COOH–CNTs are designed and obtained. Whereafter, the structure and morphology of target products are analyzed by many means such as infrared, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. The electrocatalytic performances of lithium-thionyl chloride battery catalyzed by (MTAPcCF3)2C–COOH–CNTs were carried out. The result shows that all catalysts can improve the battery performance including the discharge time and the initial voltage. The catalytic performance of (MTAPcCF3)2C–COOH–CNTs is ordered following the central metal: Mn > Fe > Ni > Co > Cu > Zn. The cell capacity catalyzed by optimal catalyst (MnTAPcCF3)2C–COOH–CNTs can expand to 28.08 mA·h, with increase by 142.07%, and the (MnTAPcCF3)2C–COOH–CNTs can extend the discharge time to 551.6 s. Besides, the reaction mechanism is presented on the basis of cyclic voltammetry measurements.

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The authors thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21371143, 21671157 and 21501139) for the financial support of this work.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Physico-Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry & Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi’an, 710069, China

    Yan Gao, Liangting Chen, Xiao Wang & Jianshe Zhao

  2. Research Institute of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group Corp. Ltd., Xi’an, 710075, China

    Guangfa Hu

  3. School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an, 710021, China

    Gai Zhang

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Canada

    Ying Zheng

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Gao, Y., Chen, L., Hu, G. et al. Amino-substituted binuclear phthalocyanines bonding with multi-wall carbon nanotube as efficient electrocatalysts for lithium-thionyl chloride battery. Journal of Materials Research 34, 921–931 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2019.48

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