Ruthenium Oxide Incorporated One-Dimensional Cobalt Oxide Composite Nanowires as Lithium-Oxygen Battery Cathode Catalysts
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- Title
- Ruthenium Oxide Incorporated One-Dimensional Cobalt Oxide Composite Nanowires as Lithium-Oxygen Battery Cathode Catalysts
- Authors
- Kim, Youngmin; Park, Jong Hoon; Kim, Jong Guk; Noh, Yuseong; Kim, Yoongon; Han, Hyunsu; Kim, Won Bae
- Date Issued
- 2017-09
- Publisher
- WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
- Abstract
- Ruthenium oxide/cobalt oxide composite nanowires (RuO2/Co3O4 NWs) have been synthesized through a simple and efficient electrospinning method for use as bifunctional electrocatalysts in rechargeable lithium-oxygen (Li-O-2) battery cathodes. The as-prepared NWs have been characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. The intrinsic activities of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) over the obtained composite NWs are studied using a rotating-disk electrode technique. The RuO2/Co3O4 NWs exhibit superior bifunctional electrocatalytic activities for both the ORR and the OER if compared to the activities of the Co3O4 NWs and only Ketjenblack (KB). If the RuO2/Co3O4 NWs are employed as cathode catalysts in Li-O-2 cells, great improvements in terms of the discharge capacity, coulombic efficiency, and cycle stability with low discharge-charge overpotentials are achieved. These can be attributed to the high bifunctional catalytic activities of the RuO2/Co3O4 composite NWs.
- Keywords
- METAL-AIR BATTERIES; LI-O-2 BATTERIES; ENERGY-CONVERSION; PERFORMANCE; CARBON; CO3O4; ELECTROCATALYSTS; NANOPARTICLES; CHALLENGES
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/50508
- DOI
- 10.1002/cctc.201700560
- ISSN
- 1867-3880
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- CHEMCATCHEM, vol. 9, no. 18, page. 3554 - 3562, 2017-09
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