MnO2 Nanotubes Synthesized with One-step Hydrothermal Method as Efficient Bi-functional Cathode Catalyst for a Rechargeable Zinc-air Battery
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Abstract
This paper reports the preparation and electro-catalytic activity of MnO 2 nanotube catalysts for both oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reduction (OER) in alkaline media. The catalysts were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method under controlling the different temperatures. Results of electrochemical characterization with emphasis on the activity of the catalyst are presented, which was demonstrated by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) employing a rotating disk electrode (RDE) technique. The experiments show that the as-prepared MnO 2 catalyst with nanotube structure exhibited high electro-catalytic activity and stability during battery discharge, charge and cycling processes in 6 M KOH electrolyte. The primary Zn-air battery showed a discharge peak power density ~293 mW cm -2 , which corresponds to the energy density ~725 mA hg -1 . The rechargeable Zn-air battery exhibited a small charge-discharge voltage polarization of ~0.7 V at 10 mA cm -2 , high reversibility and stability over short charge and discharge cycles, and ~1.1 V for a long charge and discharge cycles test.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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