Design Principles and Mechanistic Understandings of Non-Noble-Metal Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Zinc–Air Batteries

Yunnan Gao; Ling Liu; Yi Jiang; Dexin Yu; Xiaomei Zheng; Jiayi Wang; Jingwei Liu; Dan Luo; Yongguang Zhang; Zhenjia Shi; Xin Wang; Ya-Ping Deng; Zhongwei Chen

doi:10.1007/s40820-024-01366-9

Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 162(2024)

Design Principles and Mechanistic Understandings of Non-Noble-Metal Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Zinc–Air Batteries

Yunnan Gao^1、†, Ling Liu^1、†, Yi Jiang^1、†,*, Dexin Yu¹, Xiaomei Zheng⁴, Jiayi Wang³, Jingwei Liu¹, Dan Luo¹, Yongguang Zhang^1、**, Zhenjia Shi¹, Xin Wang³, Ya-Ping Deng^2、***, and Zhongwei Chen^1、****

Author Affiliations

¹Power Battery and Systems Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China

²Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada

³Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo 315100, People’s Republic of China

⁴College of Materials and Chemistry, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, People’s Republic of China

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Yunnan Gao, Ling Liu, Yi Jiang, Dexin Yu, Xiaomei Zheng, Jiayi Wang, Jingwei Liu, Dan Luo, Yongguang Zhang, Zhenjia Shi, Xin Wang, Ya-Ping Deng, Zhongwei Chen. Design Principles and Mechanistic Understandings of Non-Noble-Metal Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Zinc–Air Batteries[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 162

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Received: Oct. 8, 2023

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The Author Email: Jiang Yi (jiangy0719@dicp.ac.cn), Zhang Yongguang (ygzhang@dicp.ac.cn), Deng Ya-Ping (ya-ping.deng@uwaterloo.ca), Chen Zhongwei (zwchen@dicp.ac.cn)

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