Gadolinium-Induced Valence Structure Engineering for Enhanced Oxygen Electrocatalysis

Li, M (Li, Meng)[ 1 ] ; Wang, Y (Wang, Yu)[ 1 ] ; Zheng, Y (Zheng, Yang)[ 1 ] ; Fu, GT (Fu, Gengtao)[ 2,3 ]*; Sun, DM (Sun, Dongmei)[ 1 ] ; Li, YF (Li, Yafei)[ 1 ] ; Tang, YW (Tang, Yawen)[ 1 ]*（唐亚文）; Ma, TY (Ma, Tianyi)[ 4 ]*

[ 1 ] Nanjing Normal Univ, Jiangsu Collaborat Innovat Ctr Biomed Funct Mat, Sch Chem & Mat Sci, Jiangsu Key Lab New Power Batteries, Nanjing 210023, Peoples R China

[ 2 ] Univ Texas Austin, Mat Sci & Engn Program, Austin, TX 78712 USA

[ 3 ] Univ Texas Austin, Texas Mat Inst, Austin, TX 78712 USA

[ 4 ] Univ Newcastle, Discipline Chem, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia

ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS，202002,1903833

Rare earth doped materials with unique electronic ground state configurations are considered emerging alternatives to conventional Pt/C for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Herein, gadolinium (Gd)-induced valence structure engineering is, for the first, time investigated for enhanced oxygen electrocatalysis. The Gd2O3-Co heterostructure loaded on N-doped graphene (Gd2O3-Co/NG) is constructed as the target catalyst via a facile sol-gel assisted strategy. This synthetic strategy allows Gd2O3-Co nanoparticles to distribute uniformly on an N-graphene surface and form intimate Gd2O3/Co interface sites. Upon the introduction of Gd2O3, the ORR activity of Gd2O3-Co/NG is significantly increased compared with Co/NG, where the half-wave potential (E-1/2) of Gd2O3-Co/NG is 100 mV more positive than that of Co/NG and even close to commercial Pt/C. The density functional theory calculation and spectroscopic analysis demonstrate that, owing to intrinsic charge redistribution at the engineered interface of Gd2O3/Co, the coupled Gd2O3-Co can break the OOH*-OH* scaling relation and result in a good balance of OOH* and OH* binding on Gd2O3-Co surface. For practical application, a rechargeable Zn-air battery employing Gd2O3-Co/NG as an air-cathode achieves a large power density and excellent charge-discharge cycle stability.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aenm.201903833

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