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RECERCAT author He, Ren author Yang, Linlin author Zhang, Yu author Wang, Xiang author Lee, Seungho author Zhang, Ting author Li, Lingxiao author Liang, Zhifu author Chen, Jingwei author Li, Junshan author Ostovari Moghaddam, Ahmad author Llorca, Jordi author Ibáñez, Maria author Arbiol i Cobos, Jordi author Xu, Ying author Cabot, Andreu 2023 Altres ajuts: CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya ; This study was supported by MCIN with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I1) and Generalitat de CatalunyaThe development of cost-effective, high-activity and stable bifunctional catalysts for the oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (ORR/OER) is essential for zinc-air batteries (ZABs) to reach the market. Such catalysts must contain multiple adsorption/reaction sites to cope with the high demands of reversible oxygen electrodes. Herein, we propose a high entropy alloy (HEA) based on relatively abundant elements as a bifunctional ORR/OER catalyst. More specifically, we detail the synthesis of a CrMnFeCoNi HEA through a low-temperature solution-based approach. Such HEA displays superior OER performance with an overpotential of 265 mV at a current density of 10 mA/cm, and a 37.9 mV/dec Tafel slope, well above the properties of a standard commercial catalyst based on RuO. This high performance is partially explained by the presence of twinned defects, the incidence of large lattice distortions, and the electronic synergy between the different components, being Cr key to decreasing the energy barrier of the OER rate-determining step. CrMnFeCoNi also displays superior ORR performance with a half-potential of 0.78 V and an onset potential of 0.88 V, comparable with commercial Pt/C. The potential gap (Egap) between the OER overpotential and the ORR half-potential of CrMnFeCoNi is just 0.734 V. Taking advantage of these outstanding properties, ZABs are assembled using the CrMnFeCoNi HEA as air cathode and a zinc foil as the anode. The assembled cells provide an open-circuit voltage of 1.489 V, i.e. 90% of its theoretical limit (1.66 V), a peak power density of 116.5 mW/cm, and a specific capacity of 836 mAh/g that stays stable for more than 10 days of continuous cycling, i.e. 720 cycles @ 8 mA/cm and 16.6 days of continuous cycling, i.e. 1200 cycles @ 5 mA/cm. open access Aquest material està protegit per drets d'autor i/o drets afins. Podeu utilitzar aquest material en funció del que permet la legislació de drets d'autor i drets afins d'aplicació al vostre cas. Per a d'altres usos heu d'obtenir permís del(s) titular(s) de drets. https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ A CrMnFeCoNi high entropy alloy boosting oxygen evolution/reduction reactions and zinc-air battery performance Article