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The successful development of Li-O2 battery technology depends on developing a stable and efficient cathode. As an important step toward this goal, for the first time, we report the development of CeO2 nanoparticles modified NiCo2O4 nanowire arrays (NWAs) grown on the carbon textiles as a new carbon-free and binder-free cathode system. In this study, the Li-O2 battery with the CeO2@NiCo2O4 NWAs has exhibited much reduced overpotentials, a high discharge capacity, an improved cycling stability, outperforming the Li-O2 battery with NiCo2O4 NWAs. These improvements can be attributed to both the tailored morphology of discharge product and improved oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity after CeO2 NPs deposition. To a considerable extent, this idea of cathode construction including structure design and composition optimization can provide guidance for further researches in developing more powerful cathode for Li-O2 battery.
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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2017YFA0206704, 2016YFB0100103), the National Basic Research Program of China (2014CB932300), Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA09010404), Technology and Industry for National Defence of the People’s Republic of China (JCKY2016130B010), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51771177, 21422108, 51472232), and Jilin Province Science and Technology Development Program (20160101289JC).
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Yang, ZD., Chang, ZW., Xu, JJ. et al. CeO2@NiCo2O4 nanowire arrays on carbon textiles as high performance cathode for Li-O2 batteries. Sci. China Chem. 60, 1540–1545 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-017-9156-0
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