Abstract

Highlights

This review summarizes the recent progress and application of different metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)-derived non-noble metal materials for zinc-air batteries in the past few years.

This work gives extensive insights in understanding the relationship between design strategies and structure-activity relationship.

The challenges and prospects of MOF-derived oxygen electrocatalysts for zinc-air batteries are proposed.

Oxygen electrocatalysts are of great importance for the air electrode in zinc-air batteries (ZABs). Owing to the high specific surface area, controllable pore size and unsaturated metal active sites, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) derivatives have been widely studied as oxygen electrocatalysts in ZABs. To date, many strategies have been developed to generate efficient oxygen electrocatalysts from MOFs for improving the performance of ZABs. In this review, the latest progress of the MOF-derived non-noble metal–oxygen electrocatalysts in ZABs is reviewed. The performance of these MOF-derived catalysts toward oxygen reduction, and oxygen evolution reactions is discussed based on the categories of metal-free carbon materials, single-atom catalysts, metal cluster/carbon composites and metal compound/carbon composites. Moreover, we provide a comprehensive overview on the design strategies of various MOF-derived non-noble metal–oxygen electrocatalysts and their structure-performance relationship. Finally, the challenges and perspectives are provided for further advancing the MOF-derived oxygen electrocatalysts in ZABs.

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Title
Recent Advances on MOF Derivatives for Non-Noble Metal Oxygen Electrocatalysts in Zinc-Air Batteries
Author
Zhu, Yuting 1 ; Yue, Kaihang 1 ; Xia, Chenfeng 2 ; Zaman, Shahid 2 ; Yang, Huan 2 ; Wang, Xianying 3 ; Yan, Ya 1 ; Xia, Bao Yu 2 

 University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.267139.8) (ISNI:0000 0000 9188 055X); Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS), CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.454856.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 1957 6294) 
 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.33199.31) (ISNI:0000 0004 0368 7223) 
 Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS), CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.454856.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 1957 6294) 
Pages
137
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Dec 2021
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
23116706
e-ISSN
21505551
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2537860637
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.