The invention relates to the technical field of difunctional
oxygen electrocatalysts and rechargeable
zinc air batteries, in particular to a difunctional
oxygen electrocatalyst and preparation and application thereof.The preparation method of the difunctional
oxygen electrocatalyst comprises the following steps that 1,
iron phthalocyanine (II) and
nickel phthalocyanine (II) are mixed to obtain iron-
nickel mixed
powder, then a carbon nanomaterial is added, then ultrasonic treatment is conducted in an
organic solvent, and the carbon nanomaterial is obtained; then centrifugally separating the mixed
powder and the
solvent; (2)
drying the separated mixed
powder, and
grinding; and (3) putting the ground powder into a tubular furnace, and heating for 1 hour in an
argon atmosphere at 800 DEG C to obtain the difunctional oxygen
electrocatalyst FeNi-coated NC-CNM with a core-shell structure. The difunctional oxygen electrocatalyst prepared by the invention has good performance in the aspects of OER and ORR, the application test in a
zinc-air battery shows that the open-circuit
voltage of a rechargeable battery reaches 1.43 V and is far higher than that of a commercial Pt / C + RuO2
electrode (1.36 V), and meanwhile, the difunctional oxygen electrocatalyst has
high power density (192 mW / cm < 2 >) and long service life (stable operation for 400 hours).