Single-atom catalysts (SACs), as promising alternatives to Pt-based catalysts, suffer from the limited choice of center metals and low single-atom loading. Here, we report a pentacoordinated Zr-based SAC with nontrivial axial O ligands (denoted O−Zr−N−C) for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The O ligand downshifts the d-band center of Zr and confers Zr sites with stable local structure and proper adsorption capability for intermediates. Consequently, the ORR performance of O−Zr−N−C prominently surpasses that of commercial Pt/C, achieving a half-wave potential of 0.91 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode and outstanding durability (92 % current retention after 130-hour operation). Moreover, the Zr site shows good resistance towards aggregation, enabling the synthesis of Zr-based SAC with high loading (9.1 wt%). With the high-loading catalyst, the zinc-air battery (ZAB) delivers a record-high power density of 324 mW cm−2 among those of SAC-based ZABs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:89878 |
| Date | 19 April 2024 |
| Creators | Wang, Xia, An, Yun, Liu, Lifeng, Fang, Lingzhe, Liu, Yannan, Zhang, Jiaxu, Qi, Haoyuan, Heine, Thomas, Li, Tao, Kuc, Agnieszka, Yu, Minghao, Feng, Xinliang |
| Publisher | Wiley-VCH |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 1521-3773, e202209746, 10.1002/anie.202209746, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/European Commission/H2020 | SGA-RIA/881603//Graphene Flagship Core Project 3/GrapheneCore3 |
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