Abstract

Highlights

A carbon free self supported Mott-Schottky heterostructure was constructed as an efficient cathode catalyst for lithium oxygen batteries, achieving homogeneous contact between the two materials for strong interfacial interactions.

The heterostructure triggered interfacial perturbations and band structure changes, which accelerated oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) kinetics, resulting in an extremely long cycle life of 800 cycles and an extremely low overpotential of 0.73 V.

Combined with advanced characterization techniques and density functional theory calculations, the underlying mechanism behind the boosted ORR/OER activities and the electrocatalytic mechanism were revealed.

Lithium-oxygen batteries (LOBs) with high energy density are a promising advanced energy storage technology. However, the slow cathodic redox kinetics during cycling causes the discharge products to fail to decompose in time, resulting in large polarization and battery failure in a short time. Therefore, a self-supporting interconnected nanosheet array network NiCo2O4/MnO2 with a Mott–Schottky heterostructure on titanium paper (TP-NCO/MO) is ingeniously designed as an efficient cathode catalyst material for LOBs. This heterostructure can accelerate electron transfer and influence the charge transfer process during adsorption of intermediate by triggering the interface disturbance at the heterogeneous interface, thus accelerating oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution kinetics and regulating product decomposition, which is expected to solve the above problems. The meticulously designed unique structural advantages enable the TP-NCO/MO cathode catalyst to exhibit an astounding ultra-long cycle life of 800 cycles and an extraordinarily low overpotential of 0.73 V. This study utilizes a simple method to cleverly regulate the morphology of the discharge products by constructing a Mott–Schottky heterostructure, providing important reference for the design of efficient catalysts aimed at optimizing the adsorption of reaction intermediates.

Details

Title
Constructed Mott–Schottky Heterostructure Catalyst to Trigger Interface Disturbance and Manipulate Redox Kinetics in Li-O2 Battery
Author
Xia, Yongji 1 ; Wang, Le 1 ; Gao, Guiyang 1 ; Mao, Tianle 1 ; Wang, Zhenjia 1 ; Jin, Xuefeng 1 ; Hong, Zheyu 1 ; Han, Jiajia 1 ; Peng, Dong-Liang 1 ; Yue, Guanghui 1 

 Xiamen University, State Key Lab of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, Fujian Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Engineering for High Performance Materials, College of Materials, Xiamen, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.12955.3a) (ISNI:0000 0001 2264 7233) 
Pages
258
Publication year
2024
Publication date
Dec 2024
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
23116706
e-ISSN
21505551
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3085746523
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024. 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.