Electrocatalysis for Zn-Air Batteries

Dear Colleagues,

The development of sustainable and clean energy requires great break throughs in new energy technologies, like metal-air batteries. Rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs) have attracted extensive attentions due to high energy density of 1086 Wh/kg, natural abundance of zinc reserves, low-cost, and high safety. While, the performance of ZABs severely deteriorates when the temperature falls below 0°C, due to the decelerated kinetics of electrocatalytic reaction and extremely high O=O bond energy value of 498 kJ/mol. Thus, highly efficient materials are focused on the bifunctional electrocatalysts than can accelerate both on oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). This Special Issue is aimed at providing selected contributions on advances in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of nanomaterials with regard to ORR and/or OER for ZABs.

Dr. Yan Xie
Dr. Zhangpeng Li
Dr. Zhuo Wang
Guest Editors

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