Design of economical, large-scale, stable, and highly active bifunctional electrocatalysts for Zn-air batteries with enhanced oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution performance is needed. Herein, a series of electrocatalysts were facilely fabricated where formed bimetallic nanoparticles aided in the growth of carbon nanotubes over carbon nanofibers (MM'-CNT@CNF) during thermal treatment. Different combinations of Fe, Ni, Co and Mn metals and melamine as precursor for CNT growth were investigated. The synergistic interaction between bimetallic nanoparticles and N-doped carbon results in greatly improved bifunctional catalytic activity for both oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (ORR, OER) using FeNi-CNT@CNF as catalyst. The half-wave potential (0.80 V RHE) for FeNi-CNT@CNF for ORR was close to that of Pt/C (0.79 V RHE), meanwhile its stability was superior to Pt/C. Likewise, during OER, the FeNi-CNT@CNF reached a current density of 10 mA cm at a rather low overpotential of 310 mV RHE compared to benchmark RuO (410 mV). The rechargeable Zn-air prototype battery using FeNi-CNT@CNF as an air electrode outperformed the mixture of Pt/C and RuO with discharge/charge overpotential of 0.61 V, power density of 118 mW cm at 10 mA cm and an improved cycling stability over 108 hours.
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