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Synthesis and performance evaluation of binuclear metal phthalocyanines as high-efficiency electrocatalysts for Li/SOCl2 batteries

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Two series of binuclear metal phthalocyanine complexes M2(PcTN)2Nap and M2(PcTA)2Nap (M = Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Cu2+) were designed and synthesized through the liquid solvent method and amination reaction. Elemental analysis, IR, and UV-vis spectroscopy were applied to characterize the compounds. To evaluate their catalytic performance, all the compounds were respectively added into the electrolyte of Li/SOCl2 battery systems as well as three-electrode systems for cyclic voltammetry (CV) measurements. The research studies indicate that the average discharge voltage and discharge time of the battery could be effectively enhanced by 0.2440 V and 810.7 s when compared with the battery in the absence of the compounds. As for capacities of the batteries containing catalysts, they were also found to have an improvement of 51.78–91.62%. Among the effects of diverse metal ions on the catalytic performance of phthalocyanines, the complexes whose center metal ions were Mn2+ or Co2+ exhibited relatively high catalytic performance. Meanwhile, combined with experimental results of CV analyses, the suggested catalytic mechanism of binuclear phthalocyanines for catalyzing Li/SOCl2 batteries had been proposed.

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The authors thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21401149) and the Key Laboratory Research and Establish Program of Shaanxi Education Section (No. 17JS130) for the financial support of this work.

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    Yuanyuan Su, Ying Zhang, Ronglan Zhang, Fei Yang & Jianshe Zhao

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Su, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, R. et al. Synthesis and performance evaluation of binuclear metal phthalocyanines as high-efficiency electrocatalysts for Li/SOCl2 batteries. Journal of Materials Research 33, 2376–2384 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.238

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