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Janani G, Surendran S, Choi H, Han MK, Sim U. In Situ Grown CoMn 2 O 4 3D-Tetragons on Carbon Cloth: Flexible Electrodes for Efficient Rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery Powered Water Splitting Systems. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2021; 17:e2103613. [PMID: 34677907 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202103613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Revised: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The integration of energy conversion and storage systems such as electrochemical water splitting (EWS) and rechargeable zinc-air battery (ZAB) is on the vision to provide a sustainable future with green energy resources. Herein, a unique strategy for decorating 3D tetragonal CoMn2 O4 on carbon cloth (CMO-U@CC) via a facile one-pot in situ hydrothermal process, is reported. The highly exposed morphology of 3D tetragons enhances the electrocatalytic activity of CMO-U@CC. This is the first demonstration of such a bifunctional activity of CMO-U@CC in an EWS system; it achieves a nominal cell voltage of 1.610 V @ 10 mA cm-2 . Similarly, the fabricated rechargeable ZAB delivers a specific capacity of 641.6 mAh gzn -1 , a power density of 135 mW cm-2 , and excellent cyclic stability (50 h @ 10 mA cm-2 ). Additionally, a series of flexible solid-state ZABs are fabricated and employed to power the assembled CMO-U@CC-based water electrolyzer. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first demonstration of an in situ-grown binder-free CMO-U@CC as a flexible multifunctional electrocatalyst for a built-in integrated rechargeable ZAB-powered EWS system.
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- Gnanaprakasam Janani
- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Engineering Research Center, Optoelectronics Convergence Research Center, Future Energy Engineering Convergence and College of AI Convergence, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Engineering Research Center, Optoelectronics Convergence Research Center, Future Energy Engineering Convergence and College of AI Convergence, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Engineering Research Center, Optoelectronics Convergence Research Center, Future Energy Engineering Convergence and College of AI Convergence, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Engineering Research Center, Optoelectronics Convergence Research Center, Future Energy Engineering Convergence and College of AI Convergence, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
- Research Institute, NEEL Sciences, INC., Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Engineering Research Center, Optoelectronics Convergence Research Center, Future Energy Engineering Convergence and College of AI Convergence, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
- Research Institute, NEEL Sciences, INC., Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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Kumar ETD, Easwaramoorthi S, Rao JR. Fluorinated Reduced Graphene Oxide-Encapsulated ZnO Hollow Sphere Composite as an Efficient Photocatalyst with Increased Charge-Carrier Mobility. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:8681-8691. [PMID: 31145620 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Zinc oxide (ZnO) hollow spheres were prepared by the hydrothermal method and encapsulated with fluorinated reduced graphene oxide (FRGO) using a tetra- n-butylammonium bromide (TBAB) linker to give an FRGO/ZnO composite. X-ray diffraction and microscopic studies revealed their hexagonal-wurtzite structure, spherical morphology, and size of the crystallite to be 26.7 nm. Diffuse reflectance UV-visible spectroscopy showed an optical band gap and semiconductive nature of the composite. Atomic force microscopy images show the surface topography of FRGO-encapsulated ZnO hollow spheres. The photoluminescence spectra depicted the electron-hole pair recombination order to be ZnO > RGO/ZnO > FRGO/ZnO. The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) demonstrates the increased charge-carrier mobility of the FRGO/ZnO composite; the Rct values of ZnO, RGO/ZnO, and FRGO/ZnO were found to be 6.18 × 103, 4.07 × 103, and 3.45 × 103 Ω, respectively. All the three materials were employed as photocatalysts in the degradation of methylene blue under UV-365 nm radiation and the results exposed the higher photocatalytic activity of reduced fluorinated graphene oxide/ZnO than RGO/ZnO and bare ZnO hollow spheres. The increased photocatalytic activity of the composite is due to the enhanced vectorial transport of charge carriers at the interface of the FRGO/ZnO composite and suppression of charge-carrier recombination. The presence of fluorine in the RGO sheet introduces additional defects and leverages heterogeneous electron transport. In turn, mobility of light-generated charge carriers is increased and results in suppression of their recombination, which facilitates the photocatalytic process.
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- E T Deva Kumar
- Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Laboratory , CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute , Chennai 600020 , India
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- Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Laboratory , CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute , Chennai 600020 , India
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- Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Laboratory , CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute , Chennai 600020 , India
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Ghosh S, Basu RN. Multifunctional nanostructured electrocatalysts for energy conversion and storage: current status and perspectives. NANOSCALE 2018; 10:11241-11280. [PMID: 29897365 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr01032c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) have attracted widespread attention because of their important role in the application of various energy storage and conversion devices, such as fuel cells, metal-air batteries and water splitting devices. However, the sluggish kinetics of the HER/OER/ORR and their dependency on expensive noble metal catalysts (e.g., Pt) obstruct their large-scale application. Hence, the development of efficient and robust bifunctional or trifunctional electrocatalysts in nanodimension for both oxygen reduction/evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions is highly desired and challenging for their commercialization in renewable energy technologies. This review describes some recent developments in the discovery of bifunctional or trifunctional nanostructured catalysts with improved performances for application in rechargeable metal-air batteries and fuel cells. The role of the electronic structure and surface redox chemistry of nanocatalysts in the improvement of their performance for the ORR/OER/HER under an alkaline medium is highlighted and the associated reaction mechanisms developed in the recent literature are also summarized.
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- Srabanti Ghosh
- CSIR - Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Fuel Cell & Battery Division, 196, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, INDIA.
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Sun MH, Huang SZ, Chen LH, Li Y, Yang XY, Yuan ZY, Su BL. Applications of hierarchically structured porous materials from energy storage and conversion, catalysis, photocatalysis, adsorption, separation, and sensing to biomedicine. Chem Soc Rev 2016; 45:3479-563. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cs00135a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 964] [Impact Index Per Article: 120.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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A comprehensive review of the recent progress in the applications of hierarchically structured porous materials is given.
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- Ming-Hui Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing
- Wuhan University of Technology
- Wuhan 430070
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing
- Wuhan University of Technology
- Wuhan 430070
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing
- Wuhan University of Technology
- Wuhan 430070
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing
- Wuhan University of Technology
- Wuhan 430070
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing
- Wuhan University of Technology
- Wuhan 430070
- China
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- Collaborat Innovat. Ctr. Chem. Sci. & Engn. Tianjin
- Key Lab. Adv. Energy Mat. Chem
- Minist. Educ
- Coll. Chem
- Nankai Univ
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing
- Wuhan University of Technology
- Wuhan 430070
- China
- Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry (CMI)
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Zhong X, Wang J, Zhang S, Yang G, Wang Y. Ten-fold coordinated polymorph and metallization of TiO2under high pressure. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra07245j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A stable and metallic CaC2-type structure of TiO2is identified with the highest coordination number among the known phases.
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- Xin Zhong
- State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
- China
- Faculty of Chemistry
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- State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
- China
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