A Review of Carbon-Composited Materials as Air-Electrode Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Metal–Air Batteries

Yan-Jie Wang; Baizeng Fang; Dan Zhang; Aijun Li; David P. Wilkinson; Anna Ignaszak; Lei Zhang; Jiujun Zhang

doi:10.1007/s41918-018-0002-3

Electrochemical Energy Reviews ›› 2018, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (1) : 1 -34. DOI: 10.1007/s41918-018-0002-3

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A Review of Carbon-Composited Materials as Air-Electrode Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Metal–Air Batteries

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¹ School of Sciences, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Shanghai University, 200444, Shanghai, CN

² School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, 523808, Dongguan, state, CN

³ Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Vancouver, state, CA

⁴ Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Fredericton, state, CA

⁵ Energy, Mining and Environment, National Research Council Canada, V6T 1W5, Vancouver, state, CA

^f 1-506-447-7707 Anna.Ignaszak@unb.ca

^h +86-1399521873 jiujun@shaw.ca

Dr. Yan-Jie Wang obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in 2005. Subsequently, he conducted two postdoctoral research positions at the Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, and at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, respectively. In 2009, he worked as a senior scientist at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada and Vancouver International Clean-Tech Research Institute Inc., respectively. In 2017, he became a full-Professor at the Dongguan University of Technology, China. He is also an adjunct professor at the Fuzhou University. His interests include energy storage and conversion, polymer science, biomass, and medical areas.

Dr. Baizeng Fang earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Science and Technology, Beijing in 1997. He then worked as a postdoc in Holland, a JSPS fellow in Japan, a Lise Meitner scientist in Austria and a research professor at Korea University. He is a senior scientist at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in high-profile journals including the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Accounts of Chemical Research and Chemical Reviews. His research interests include nanostructured materials for electrochemical energy storage/conversion, and artificial photosynthesis. He also serves as an associate editor for RSC Advances.

Dr. Dan Zhang is a Lecturer at the Shanghai Institute of Mathematic and Mechanics at Shanghai University. Dr. Dan Zhang received her Ph.D. in Manufacturing Engineering of Aerospace Vehicle from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2006. Dr. Zhang’s current research interests include the hydrodynamic of microfluidic devices and the reaction mechanism simulations of surface electrocatalysis in the field of fuel cells.

Dr. Aijun Li is currently a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Shanghai University (SHU). He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an China in 2004. Dr. Li worked as a senior scientist and then a group leader for carbon materials at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany from 2010 to 2015, being involved with the research, development and application of composites. Dr. Li’s main research interests are in the complex interactions of multi-physical and chemical phenomena involved in chemically reacting flows; mainly focusing on modeling, simulation and synthesis of composites by chemical vapor infiltration/deposition processes.

Dr. David P. Wilkinson is a professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He previously held the positions of Executive director of the UBC Clean Energy Research Center, Principal Research Officer and Senior Advisor with the National Research Council of Canada Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, Director and Vice President of Research and development at Ballard Power Systems, and Group Leader at Moli Energy. His main research interests are in electrochemical and photochemical devices, energy conversion and storage materials, and processes to create clean and sustainable energy and water.

Dr. Anna Ignaszak is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick and an adjunct assistant professor at the Friedrich-Schiller University (Germany). She completed an appointment as a research associate at the Clean Energy Research Center, at the University of British Columbia (Canada), and as a research associate at the National Research Council of Canada. She has a diverse background in materials (carbons, composites, metal clusters) for electrochemical energy storage and conversion, electrochemical sensors, and heterogeneous catalysis. The research conducted in her laboratories in Canada and Germany aims to synthesize morphology-controlled catalysts, understanding the structure–reactivity interplay for optimum redox activity.

Lei Zhang is a Senior Research Officer at National Research Council Canada (NRC), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), an adjunct Professor of various Universities, and a vice president of International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). Lei’s research interests include PEM Fuel Cell electrocatalysis, supercapacitors, metal-air batteries, batteries and hybrid batteries. She has co-authored more than 170 publications. She is the member of the NSERC Industrial R&D Fellowships College of Reviewers, the Editorial Board Member of Electrochemical Energy Reviews (EER) -Springer Nature. She is also an active member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC), and the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE).

Dr. Jiujun Zhang is a Professor in College of Sciences, Institute for Sustainable Energy at Shanghai University. He was a Principal Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) from 2004 to 2016. Dr. Zhang received his B.S. and M.Sc. in electrochemistry from Peking University in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and his Ph.D. in electrochemistry from Wuhan University in 1988. He then carried out three terms of postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, York University, and the University of British Columbia. Dr. Zhang has over 30 years of scientific research experience, particularly in the area of electrochemical energy storage and conversion. He is also the Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and the University of Waterloo.

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Metal–air batteries (MABs), particularly rechargeable MABs, have gained renewed interests as a potential energy storage/conversion solution due to their high specific energy, low cost, and safety. The development of MABs has, however, been considerably hampered by its relatively low rate capability and its lack of efficient and stable air catalysts in which the former stems mainly from the sluggish kinetics of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and the latter stems from the corrosion/oxidation of carbon materials in the presence of oxygen and high electrode potentials. In this review, various carbon-composited bifunctional electrocatalysts are reviewed to summarize progresses in the enhancement of ORR/OER and durability induced by the synergistic effects between carbon and other component(s). Catalyst mechanisms of the reaction processes and associated performance enhancements as well as technical challenges hindering commercialization are also analyzed. To facilitate further research and development, several research directions for overcoming these challenges are also proposed.

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Metal–air batteries / Oxygen reduction reaction / Oxygen evolution reaction / Carbon / Bifunctional electrocatalysts / Synergistic effect

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Yan-Jie Wang, Baizeng Fang, Dan Zhang, Aijun Li, David P. Wilkinson, Anna Ignaszak, Lei Zhang, Jiujun Zhang. A Review of Carbon-Composited Materials as Air-Electrode Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Metal–Air Batteries. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2018, 1(1): 1-34 DOI:10.1007/s41918-018-0002-3

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