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A coordination polymer-derived Co 3 O 4 /Co-N@NMC composite material as a Zn-air battery cathode electrocatalyst and microwave absorber.
Zn-air batteries, promising energy storage equipment with high energy density, light weight and a compact structure, are a perfect power source for electric vehicles. For a Zn-air battery, the activity of the air cathode electrocatalyst plays an important role in its performance. Here, employing a coordination polymer as a precursor, a composite material built from Co3O4 and Co-N active centres with nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon as a matrix has been synthesized successfully. This composite material possesses outstanding activity and stability in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) processes. It possesses a small half-wave potential (ORR1/2 = 0.786 V) and low overpotential (OER10 = 1.575 V) for the ORR and OER, respectively. With this composite material as an air cathode electrocatalyst, a rechargeable Zn-air battery was assembled successfully. During the discharge process, the maximum power density of this Zn-air battery is 122 mW cm-2 at 0.76 V. The specific capacity of this battery is 505 mA h g-1 at 25 mA cm-2. The voltage gap between the charge and discharge processes is only 0.744 V at 10 mA cm-2 and 1.308 V at 100 mA cm-2. This rechargeable battery also shows promising stability after long-term charge-discharge experiments. Furthermore, the composite material also exhibits outstanding microwave adsorption properties. Its maximum reflection loss (RL) arrives at -13.9 dB with a thickness of only 1.0 mm. Thus, we find that coordination polymers are an ideal precursor for Zn-air battery cathode electrocatalysts and microwave absorbers.
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