Breaking the Stability-Activity Trade-off of Oxygen Electrocatalyst by Gallium Bilateral-Regulation for High-Performance Zinc-Air Batteries
Dr. Yunrui Li
Ordos Laboratory, Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 010020 China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorJiaqi Xu
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorFan Lan
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Yao Wang
School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China
Search for more papers by this authorHairong Jiang
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Xueke Wu
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorYa Huang
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorRun Li
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Qinyuan Jiang
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Di Gao
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Ping Zhu
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorSiming Zhao
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorYanlong Zhao
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorFei Wang
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorLibo Zhang
Sinopec Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, 10013 Beijing, China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Longgui Zhang
Sinopec Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, 10013 Beijing, China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Prof. Rufan Zhang
Ordos Laboratory, Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 010020 China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Yunrui Li
Ordos Laboratory, Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 010020 China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorJiaqi Xu
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorFan Lan
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Yao Wang
School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China
Search for more papers by this authorHairong Jiang
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Xueke Wu
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorYa Huang
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorRun Li
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Qinyuan Jiang
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Di Gao
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Ping Zhu
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorSiming Zhao
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorYanlong Zhao
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorFei Wang
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
Search for more papers by this authorLibo Zhang
Sinopec Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, 10013 Beijing, China
Search for more papers by this authorDr. Longgui Zhang
Sinopec Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, 10013 Beijing, China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Prof. Rufan Zhang
Ordos Laboratory, Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 010020 China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Gongwuguan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
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The rational design of metal oxide catalysts with enhanced oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance is crucial for the practical application of aqueous rechargeable zinc-air batteries (a-r-ZABs). Precisely regulating the electronic environment of metal-oxygen (M−O) active species is critical yet challenging for improving their activity and stability toward OER and ORR. Herein, we propose an atomic-level bilateral regulation strategy by introducing atomically dispersed Ga for continuously tuning the electronic environment of Ru−O and Mn−O in the Ga/MnRuO2 catalyst. The Ga/MnRuO2 catalyst breaks the stability-activity restriction, showing remarkable bifunctional performance with a low potential gap (ΔE) of 0.605 V and super durability with negligible performance degradation (300,000 ORR cycles or 30,000 OER cycles). The theoretical calculations revealed that the strong coupling electron interactions between Ga and Ru−O/Mn−O tuned the valence state distribution of the metal center, effectively modulating the adsorption behavior of *O/*OH, thus optimizing the reaction pathways and reducing the reaction barriers. The a-r-ZABs based on Ga/MnRuO2 catalysts exhibited excellent performance with a wide working temperature range of −20–60 °C and a long lifetime of 2308 hours (i.e., 13,848 cycles) under a current density of 5 mA cm−2 at −20 °C.
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