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Carbon-coated Co3O4 with porosity derived from zeolite imidazole framework-67 as a bi-functional electrocatalyst for rechargeable zinc air batteries

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The electro-catalytic performance of the bi-functional catalysts at the air cathode for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) plays a significant role for the development of rechargeable zinc air batteries (ZABs). To obtain the high-performance electrocatalysts, a series of porous Co3O4 samples derived from zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) are prepared by one-step annealing process at different temperature (350, 450, and 550 °C) under air atmosphere. Compared with the commercial Co3O4, the optimized sample Co3O4 prepared at 450 °C (CO3O4/C-450) exhibits the lowest overpotential of 1.68 V and the highest half-wave potential of − 0.56 V because the porosity of as-prepared Co3O4 provides abundant reactive sites. Moreover, the high discharge potential of 1.33 V and long cycle life of more than 100 h at 20 mA cm−2 are achieved in ZABs with CO3O4/C-450 electrocatalyst, which are attributed to the better stability provided by the carbon coating.

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This work is supported by the Scientific and Technological Development Project of the Beijing Education Committee (No. KZ201710005009).

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    Qing Zhao, XiaoLong Xu, YuHong Jin, QianQian Zhang, JingBing Liu & Hao Wang

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Zhao, Q., Xu, X., Jin, Y. et al. Carbon-coated Co3O4 with porosity derived from zeolite imidazole framework-67 as a bi-functional electrocatalyst for rechargeable zinc air batteries. J Nanopart Res 22, 299 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-020-05029-9

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