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Binuclear transition metal phthalocyanines with superior performance as electrocatalysts for lithium/thionyl chloride battery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2014

Ronglan Zhang*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Physico-Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, Shaanxi, China
Bei Xu
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Physico-Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, Shaanxi, China
Jifeng Wang
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Physico-Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, Shaanxi, China
Jianshe Zhao*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Physico-Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, Shaanxi, China
Shichao Zhang
Affiliation:
School of Material Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
*
a)Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: sdzrl@126.com
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Abstract

A novel series of binuclear transition metal phthalocyanines M2Pc2HnC (M = Mn(II), Fe(II), Co(II), Ni(II), and Cu(II)) were developed for highly efficient electrocatalysts to lithium/thionyl chloride (Li/SOCl2) battery. The capacity of the battery can increase approximately by 40–65% when the binuclear compounds are present in the electrolyte of the battery. To investigate the effect of the binuclear metal phthalocyanines on Li/SOCl2 battery further, this work studied the electrocatalytic reaction of the binuclear compounds to the battery by electrochemical methods (cyclic voltammetry) and other characterization means. The results demonstrate that the order of the electrocatalytic activity of the binuclear compounds with diverse center metal ions is: Fe(II) > Co(II) > Mn(II) > Ni(II) > Cu(II).

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