Heteroatom-doped carbon catalysts for zinc–air batteries: progress, mechanism, and opportunities

X Zhu, C Hu, R Amal, L Dai, X Lu - Energy & Environmental Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Zinc–air batteries are regarded as promising candidates for next-generation clean and
sustainable energy storage devices, due to their low-cost, safety, eco-friendliness, and high …

Advanced architectures and relatives of air electrodes in Zn–air batteries

J Pan, YY Xu, H Yang, Z Dong, H Liu… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Zn–air batteries are becoming the promising power sources for portable and wearable
electronic devices and hybrid/electric vehicles because of their high specific energy density …

Metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

L Dai, Y Xue, L Qu, HJ Choi, JB Baek - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The rising global energy demand and environmental impact of traditional energy resources
pose serious challenges to human health, energy security, and environmental protection.(1 …

Carbon‐based metal‐free catalysts for electrocatalysis beyond the ORR

C Hu, L Dai - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Besides their use in fuel cells for energy conversion through the oxygen reduction reaction
(ORR), carbon‐based metal‐free catalysts have also been demonstrated to be promising …

Rechargeable zinc–air batteries: a promising way to green energy

P Gu, M Zheng, Q Zhao, X Xiao, H Xue… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
As a promising technology, electrically rechargeable zinc–air batteries have gained
significant attention in the past few years. Herein, in this review, we focused on the main …

Recent advances in zinc–air batteries

Y Li, H Dai - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Zinc–air is a century-old battery technology but has attracted revived interest recently. With
larger storage capacity at a fraction of the cost compared to lithium-ion, zinc–air batteries …

Carbon-based electrocatalysts for advanced energy conversion and storage

J Zhang, Z Xia, L Dai - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) play curial roles in
electrochemical energy conversion and storage, including fuel cells and metal-air batteries …

Atomic modulation and structure design of carbons for bifunctional electrocatalysis in metal–air batteries

Y Huang, Y Wang, C Tang, J Wang, Q Zhang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the extensive research and development of renewable energy technologies, there is an
increasing interest in developing metal‐free carbons as a new class of bifunctional …

Engineering catalytic active sites on cobalt oxide surface for enhanced oxygen electrocatalysis

X Han, G He, Y He, J Zhang, X Zheng… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tuning the catalytic active sites plays a crucial role in developing low cost and highly
durable oxygen electrode catalysts with precious metal‐competitive activity. In an attempt to …

Rechargeable zinc–air batteries: advances, challenges, and prospects

XW Lv, Z Wang, Z Lai, Y Liu, T Ma, J Geng, ZY Yuan - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Rechargeable zinc–air batteries (Re‐ZABs) are one of the most promising next‐generation
batteries that can hold more energy while being cost‐effective and safer than existing …