Fe‐Ni‐Mo Nitride Porous Nanotubes for Full Water Splitting and Zn‐Air Batteries

By Chunling Zhu, Zhuoxun Yin, Weihong Lai, Yue Sun, Lina Liu, Xitian Zhang, Yujin Chen, S. Chou. Advanced Energy Materials, 2018

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High‐performance catalysts are required in various energy storage and conversion systems. In this work, hierarchical Ni‐Fe‐Mo trimetal nitride nanotubes (NTs) as highly efficient, low‐cost, robustly stable, multifunctional catalysts through room‐temperature Fe incorporation and subsequent thermal treatment for full water splitting and Zn‐air batteries are fabricated. The two‐electrode electrolyzer assembled from the NTs delivers a current density of 10 mA cm−2 at 1.513 V, outperforming the precious metal IrO2|Pt couple and state‐of‐the‐art bifunctional catalysts. Furthermore, two all‐solid‐state Zn‐air batteries with the hierarchical NT air cathode in series can power 55 red light‐emitting diodes with excellent operation stability, at the same time as the electrolyzer based on the hierarchical NTs.

Subfields: Catalysis, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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