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๊ฒํŠธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต Francis Verpoort ๊ต์ˆ˜, ์ถฉ์ „์„ฑ ์•„์—ฐ-์—์–ด์ „์ง€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ดˆ๊ณ ์ „๊ธฐํ™”ํ•™ํŠน์„ฑ์˜ ZIF ์—์–ด์ „๊ทน ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ 

 

Prof. Francis Verpoort, email: francis.verpoort@ghent.ac.kr 

 

ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์˜ค์—ผ๊ณผ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ถ€์กฑ์„ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ฒญ์ •์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ณผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์—ฐ-์—์–ด์ „์ง€๋Š” ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๋ฐ€๋„๊ฐ€ ๋†’์•„ ์ „๊ธฐ์ž๋™์ฐจ์˜ ์ „๋ ฅ์›์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๋‹น๋˜๋Š” ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ด‰๋ง๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ๋ฐ ๋ณ€ํ™˜์˜ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์‚ฐ์†Œ ํ™˜์› (ORR)๊ณผ ์‚ฐ์†Œ ๋ฐฉ์ถœ (OER)์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์ด์–ด์„œ ๋ฐฑ๊ธˆ, ์ด๋ฆฌ๋“, ๋ฃจํ…Œ๋Š„๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธˆ์†๋“ค์ด ์‚ฐ์†Œ ํ™˜์›๊ณผ ์‚ฐ์†Œ ๋ฐฉ์ถœ์—์„œ์˜ ์ „๊ธฐ ํ™”ํ•™์  ์ด‰๋งค๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋œ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋น„์‹ผ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์•ˆ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ์•„์—ฐ์—์–ด์ „์ง€์˜ ์ƒ์—…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด, ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๊ธˆ์† ์ด‰๋งค๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ฒด ํ• ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ €๋น„์šฉ์ด๋ฉด์„œ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ด๊ด€ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์ „๊ทน ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ด€๊ฑด์ด๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฒํŠธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ์บ ํผ์Šค Francis Verpoort ๊ต์ˆ˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํŒ€์€ Mu Shichun ๊ต์ˆ˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํŒ€๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•ด์„œ ์ถฉ์ „ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์•„์—ฐ์—์–ด์ „์ง€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ด์ฐจ์› ๋“€์–ผ ๊ธˆ์† ZIF๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํŒŒ์ƒ๋œ ์ดˆ๊ณ ์ „๊ธฐํ™”ํ•™์ ํŠน์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ด๊ด€์„ฑ๋Šฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์—์–ด์ „๊ทน์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

 

๋‹จ์ผ ์ „๊ตฌ์ฒด์ธ ์ด์ค‘ ๊ธˆ์† ZIF-L์˜ ์—ด๋ถ„ํ•ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ด๊ด€์„ฑ ์ž…์ฆ ๋œ ์—์–ด์ „๊ทน์ธ Co๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด์žˆ๋Š” ์งˆ์†Œ-๋„ํ•‘ ํƒ„์†Œ๋‚˜๋…ธํŠœ๋ธŒ (Co-N-CNTs) ์บก์А์ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋œ๋‹ค. ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๊ฒŒ๋„ ์—ด๋ถ„ํ•ด ํ›„์— ์งˆ์†Œ๋Š” CNT์˜ ํŒ์„ ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์งˆ๋Ÿฌ ์ฝ”๋ฐœํŠธ์™€๋งŒ ๊ณต์กดํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ํ™œ์„ฑ ๋ถ€์œ„๋กœ์„œ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ Co-N-C ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด CNT์˜ ํ‘œ๋ฉด์— ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋…ธ์ถœ๋จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์ด๋Š” ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋œ ์ „๊ธฐ ์ด‰๋งค ํŠน์„ฑ์— ์œ ์ต ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ธก๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ, Co-N-CNT๋Š” ์‹œํŒ๋˜๋Š” Pt/C์™€ IrO2 ๋ฐ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋ณด๋„๋œ ๊ธˆ์†-์œ ๊ธฐ๋ฌผ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„ (MOF) ์œ ๋ž˜ ์ด‰๋งค์— ๋น„ํ•ด ORR ๋ฐ OER์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์ „๊ธฐ ์ด‰๋งค ํ™œ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ธ๋‹ค. 1์ฐจ ์ „์ง€๋Š” 1.365V ์˜ ๋†’์€ ์˜คํ”ˆ ์ „์••, ~90 mA cm-2์˜ ์ „๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐ€๋„, ~101 mW cm-2์˜ ํ”ผํฌ ์ „๋ ฅ ๋ฐ€๋„ ๋ฐ ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ (15์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ 130 ์‚ฌ์ดํด ์ถฉ์ „-๋ฐฉ์ „ ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค)์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ๋‚˜๋…ธ ์†Œ์žฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ตœ์ฒจ๋‹จ ์‘์šฉ๋ถ„์•ผ์—๋„ ์œ ์šฉ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋œ๋‹ค.

 

๊ทธ๋ฆผ 1. ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ Co/Zn ZIF-L ๋ฐ Co-N-CNT์˜ ์ œ์กฐ๊ณผ์ • (์ƒ). Co / Zn (1 : 1) ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ZIF-L 80 ml ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ (ํ•˜์ขŒ). Co/Zn (1:1) ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ZIF-L SEM ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ (ํ•˜์ค‘). Co-N-CNT ์‚ฌ์ง„ (ํ•˜์šฐ)

 

 

๊ทธ๋ฆผ2. ์ „๋ฅ˜ ์ „์••๊ณ„๋กœ ์Ÿ€์„ ๋•Œ ์ตœ์†Œ 1.365 V์˜ ์ „์••์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋Š” ์•„์—ฐ์—์–ด์ „์ง€ ์‚ฌ์ง„ (์ขŒ). ์„ธ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์•„์—ฐ์—์–ด์ „์ง€๋ฅผ ์ง๋ ฌ ํšŒ๋กœ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์ดˆ๋ก์ƒ‰ ๋ถˆ์ด ์ผœ์ง„ LED (5mm, ~3.2 V) ์‚ฌ์ง„ (์ค‘). ์„ธ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ถฉ์ „์„ฑ ์•„์—ฐ๊ณต๊ธฐ์ „์ง€๋ฅผ ์ง๋ ฌ ํšŒ๋กœ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•ด์„œ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ํŒ”์ฐŒ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•ด์„œ LED์— ์ดˆ๋ก์ƒ‰ ๋ถˆ์ด ์ผœ์ง€๋„๋ก ํ•จ(์šฐ).

 

์ฐธ๊ณ ์ž๋ฃŒ:

Advanced Functional Materials (2018) DOI10 (.1002/adfm.201705048

 

 

์›๋ฌธ:

Title: Two-dimensional dual-metal ZIF derived bifunctional air electrodes with ultra-high electrochemical properties for rechargeable zinc-air batteries

 

In order to find solutions for the increasing concerns of environmental pollution and energy shortages, development of clean energy and effective energy storage are highly demanded and are still major challenges for sciences and society. Zinc-air batteries have been suggested to be a promising energy storage system applicable as a power source for electric vehicles thanks to their high energy density. In the process for energy storage and conversion, the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are the critical reactions, in which precious metals such as Pt, Ir, Ru, etc. all have been used as high-active electrocatalysts for ORR and OER, respectively. However, their high cost and poor stability are hampering commercialization of Zn-air batteries.

So the most notable challenge is to develop low-cost, highly active and stable bifunctional electrode material to replace the traditional precious metal catalyst. In this context, the research group led by Prof. Francis Verpoort in collaboration with Dr. Shichun Mu’s group developed two-dimensional dual-metal ZIF derived bifunctional air electrodes with ultra-high electrochemical properties for rechargeable zinc-air batteries.

 

The pyrolysis of the dual-metal ZIF-L as a single precursor resulted in Co nanoparticles encapsulated into nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (Co-N-CNTs) which demonstrated to be the excellent bifunctional air electrodes. It is interesting that after pyrolysis the nitrogen only coexists with cobalt across the tips of the CNTs. Thus, abundant Co-N-C moieties as active sites are fully exposed on the surface of CNTs, which would be beneficial to the enhanced electrocatalytic properties. As a result, the obtained Co-N-CNTs present superior electrocatalytic activity and stability towards ORR and OER over the commercial Pt/C and IrO2 as well as most reported metal organic frameworks-derived catalysts, respectively. The primary batteries exhibited a high open current potential of 1.365 V, a current density of ~90 mA cm-2 and a peak power density of ~101 mW cm-2 as well as good stability (130 cycles for 15 h charge-discharge performance). Furthermore, it is anticipated that our nanomaterial will also be useful for other cutting-edge applications.