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Hierarchical Co3O4 porous nanowires as an efficient bifunctional cathode catalyst for long life Li-O2 batteries

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Hierarchical Co3O4 porous nanowires (NWs) have been synthesized using a hydrothermal method followed by calcination. When employed as a cathode catalyst in non-aqueous Li-oxygen batteries, the Co3O4 NWs effectively improve both the round-trip efficiency and cycling stability, which can be attributed to the high catalytic activities of Co3O4 NWs for the oxygen reduction reaction and the oxygen evolution reaction during discharge and charge processes, respectively.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China

    Qingchao Liu, Jijing Xu, Dan Xu, Zhiwen Chang, Yanbin Yin & Xinbo Zhang

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China

    Qingchao Liu, Yinshan Jiang & Yanbin Yin

  3. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Zhiwen Chang

  4. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, 130022, China

    Wanqiang Liu

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Liu, Q., Jiang, Y., Xu, J. et al. Hierarchical Co3O4 porous nanowires as an efficient bifunctional cathode catalyst for long life Li-O2 batteries. Nano Res. 8, 576–583 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-014-0689-3

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