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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2026, 235, 116920
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Hybrid Nanoalloy‐Cluster‐Single Atom Sites Based Aerophilic Carbon Fiber Membranes as Binder‐Free Cathodes for Ultra‐Long‐Life Zn‐air Batteries

Jian Zhu, Zesheng Li, Jingze Shao, Yu Xia, Chuanlai Jiao, Shaoqing Chen, Guangshe Li, Yingcai Zhu, Shi Chen, Rouxi Chen, Zian Xu and Hsing‐Lin Wang

Adv Funct Materials, 2025, 35
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Sustainable Zinc–Air Batteries: Innovations, Challenges, and Pathways to Commercialization

Jingyao Li, Defa Miao, Xinli Guo, Dan Luo, Jintao Ren and Zhongwei Chen

Small, 2025, 21
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CeO2 Boosted Fe‐N5 Electrocatalyst via Relay Catalysis for Modulating Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Al‐Air Batteries

Yumeng Zhang, Fei He, Yijun Gao, Xianchang Cui, Shanshan Song, Linbo Cao, Zhiliang Liu, Qiqi Sun, Xiao Zhang and Piaoping Yang

Adv Funct Materials, 2025, 35
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Composition modulation of electrocatalysts based on 3d transition metal towards high-performance Zn-air batteries

Ya-Fei Guo, Xu Liu, Shao-Jie Yang, Peng-Fei Wang, Zong-Lin Liu, Jun-Hong Zhang, Chun-Sheng Li, Jie Shu and Ting-Feng Yi

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 498, 155537
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Progress on Bifunctional Carbon‐Based Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries Based on Voltage Difference Performance

Yijian Song, Weijie Li, Kai Zhang, Chao Han and Anqiang Pan

Advanced Energy Materials, 2024, 14
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A 3d‐4d‐5d High Entropy Alloy as a Bifunctional Oxygen Catalyst for Robust Aqueous Zinc–Air Batteries

Ren He, Linlin Yang, Yu Zhang, Daochuan Jiang, Seungho Lee, Sharona Horta, Zhifu Liang, Xuan Lu, Ahmad Ostovari Moghaddam, Junshan Li, Maria Ibáñez, Ying Xu, Yingtang Zhou and Andreu Cabot

Advanced Materials, 2023, 35
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Competitive Rechargeable Zinc Batteries for Energy Storage

Janik Ruppert, Luca Stegemann, Alexander Bauer, Peter Bieker, Mariano Grünebaum, Hermann Tempel, Anna Windmüller, Jens Leker, Martin Winter, Rüdiger‐A. Eichel, Kerstin Neuhaus and Yasin Emre Durmus

Advanced Energy Materials, 2025, 15
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Engineering SmPO4-integrated N, P-doped porous carbon nanosheets for enhanced oxygen reduction in zinc-air batteries

Zhijuan Li, Minghao Hou, Minnan Chen, Yuxin Deng, Chuhan Ma, Xinlong Wang, Haibao Duan, Tongfei Li, Dongmei Sun and Yawen Tang

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2025, 697, 137921
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Binary Transition Metal and Nitrogen Functionalised Silicon Oxycarbide Electrocatalysts for Zn–Air Battery Air Electrode Application

Marek Mooste, Rohit Kumar, Silver Juvanen, Jekaterina Kozlova, Arvo Kikas, Alexey Treshchalov, Maike Käärik, Jaan Aruväli, Jaan Leis, Vambola Kisand, Kaupo Kukli, Dana Schonvogel, Peter Wagner, Michaela Wilhelm, Kaido Tammeveski, K. Andreas Friedrich and Zhien Zhang

International Journal of Energy Research, 2025, 2025
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Structural Design and Active‐Site Modulation of Bifunctional Electrocatalysts and Electrolyte Chemistry for Zinc–Air Batteries

Jianying Liang, Youqi Zhu, Hao Yang, Han Zhao, Di Jin, Bingzhi Guo, Hongbo Liu, Wenxin Zhang, Shubo Tian, Chuanbao Cao and Meishuai Zou

Adv Funct Materials, 2025, 35
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Self-supporting 3D cross-linked NiFe-Co/NC@NiMoO4 electrode for efficient overall water splitting and rechargeable Zn-air batteries

Xinyue Wang, Yan Shan, Lu Wang, Kezheng Chen and Xuegang Yu

Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, 2025, 375, 125406
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Hollow Co9S8/CuCo2S4 heterostructure arrays as self-supported trifunctional electrodes for rechargeable zinc-air batteries and overall water splitting

Yunxian Zhang, Lingfeng Guo, Lei Yang, Fulong Jiang, Xiaojing Lai, Yaowen Ding and Fang Wang

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025, 1039, 183008
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Integrating High‐Entropy Alloy Nanocatalysts with Aligned Porous Air Electrode for High‐Power Zinc–Air Battery

Ran Ren, Ting Liang, Zhichao Gong, Jianbin Liu, Zhixiu Lu, Kang Huang, Huilong Fei and Gonglan Ye

Advanced Materials, 2026, 38
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Interfacial and Kinetic Origins of Voltage Loss in Neutral Zinc‐Air Batteries

Ruhul Amin, Vikalp Raj, Muhammad Mominur Rahman, Shafiul Islam, Dennis Nordlund, Ali Abouimrane, Jaswinder Sharma and Ilias Belharouak

Small, 2026, 22
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An Anisotropic Hydrogel by Programmable Ionic Crosslinking for Sequential Two-Stage Actuation under Single Stimulus

Yanjing Zhang, Xingyu Cao, Yuyu Zhao, Huahuo Li, Shengwei Xiao, Zhangxin Chen, Guobo Huang, Ye Sun, Zhenzhong Liu and Zhicai He

Gels, 2023, 9, 279
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Rational design of one-dimensional cobalt-related oxygen electrocatalysts toward high-performance zinc-air batteries

Ya-Fei Guo, Ying Li, Yu-Hao Chen, Peng-Fei Wang, Ying Xie and Ting-Feng Yi

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023, 495, 215383
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Lithium-Induced Oxygen Vacancies in MnO2@MXene for High-Performance Zinc–Air Batteries

Qing Sun, Ziyang Guo, Tie Shu, Yongfei Li, Kailin Li, Yuxin Zhang, Liang Li, Jiaoyi Ning and Ke Xin Yao

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2024, 16, 12781
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Strong interaction and confine effect of manganese oxide-cobalt embedded in self-templated nitrogen-doped carbon enable ultra-stable zinc-air batteries

Zhongce Hu, Taoyi Shen, Xiang Chen, Zhenhua Yan, Tiandi Pan and Houyong Yu

Progress in Natural Science: Materials International, 2023, 33, 328
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Self-supported air cathode with enhanced mass transport for high-power zinc-air batteries

Ran Ren, Haoyu Dong, Guanchao He, Gonglan Ye and Huilong Fei

Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2026, 55, 101792
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Core-shell MOF-derived Fe3C-Co-NC as high-performance ORR/OER bifunctional catalyst

Huaqi Wang, Chenghong Sun, Enze Zhu, Chaoyang Shi, Jie Yu and Mingli Xu

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023, 948, 169728
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Recent advances of high-entropy materials as electrocatalysts for rechargeable Zn-air batteries

Kai Zhou, Shuanqiang Liu and Le Li

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025, 1011, 178435
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Nickel-iron layered double hydroxides interlinked by N-doped carbon network as bifunctional electrocatalysts for rechargeable zinc-air batteries

Jing Zhang, Chunjie Li, Yu Zheng, Mengge Shen, Huan Wen and Ruguang Ma

Diamond and Related Materials, 2024, 141, 110596
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Recent Advances in Engineering Fe−N−C Catalysts for Oxygen Electrocatalysis in Zn‐Air Batteries

Le Li, Meijun Han, Penggang Zhang, Donglei Yang and Meng Zhang

ChemSusChem, 2025, 18
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Engineering a hollow P-doped NiCoPBA@NiCoOOH heterostructure with oxygen vacancies for enhanced electrocatalytic activity and stability in the oxygen evolution reaction

Subin Lee, Jaeyeon Kim, Oju Kwon, Jaekyung Lee, Pei-chen Su and Jooheon Kim

Applied Surface Science, 2025, 700, 163206
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First‐Row Transition Metals for Catalyzing Oxygen Redox

Hengwei Wang, Yu Pei, Keliang Wang, Yayu Zuo, Manhui Wei, Jianyin Xiong, Pengfei Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Nuo Shang, Daiyuan Zhong and Pucheng Pei

Small, 2023, 19
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Photo-electroactive p-n heterojunction catalyst with dual Co sites for high-performance light-enhanced zinc–air batteries

Tuo Lu, Nengneng Xu, Benji Zhou, Liyuan Guo, Xiaodan Wen, Shuaifeng Lou, Guicheng Liu, Woochul Yang, Nianjun Yang, Momo Safari, Haitao Huang and Jinli Qiao

eScience, 2026, 6, 100450
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Advances in the rational design of flexible Zn-Air batteries: Recent developments and future perspectives

Tao-Tao Li, Bing-Chen Liu, Yi-Meng Wu, Peng-Fei Wang, Zong-Lin Liu, Jie Shu, Shijie Feng, Jiaming Zhang, Ting-Feng Yi and Qiaobao Zhang

Progress in Materials Science, 2026, 159, 101657
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Recent advances of tip effect in single-atom catalysts for boosting electrocatalytic reactions

Le Li, Donglei Yang, Li Ying and Meijun Han

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025, 1023, 180125
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Precise Design and Modification Engineering of Single‐Atom Catalytic Materials for Oxygen Reduction

Pengxiang Zhang, Yanyan Liu, Shuling Liu, Limin Zhou, Xianli Wu, Guosheng Han, Tao Liu, Kang Sun, Baojun Li and Jianchun Jiang

Small, 2024, 20
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Synergistic P and W functional modulation in P-YRO@W-MnO2 composites for high-performance bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis

Subin Lee, Jaeyeon Kim, Oju Kwon, Jaekyung Lee, Pei-chen Su and Jooheon Kim

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025, 1044, 184292
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The construction of built-in electric field in p-n heterojunction for optimized interface and improved oxygen evolution reaction activity

Yikun Luo, Yifei Zhang, Xinxin Xu and Jin Chen

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025, 1029, 180795
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CoFe/N doped biomass-derived carbon as multi-layer porous efficient bifunctional composite for zinc-air battery

Jincai Yang, Shang Wu, Jiankun Li, Shuo Tian, Jiajia Wang, Bianli Feng, Xia Wang, Chen Chen, Yanbin Wang and Quanlu Yang

Journal of Energy Storage, 2024, 102, 114047
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Research advances in doped carbon electrocatalysts derived from biomass

Haoyang Wu, Qianqian Zhao, Shan Jiang, Wei Liu, Huining Xiao and Weibing Wu

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 505, 159694
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Semiconductor for oxygen electrocatalysis in photo-assisted rechargeable zinc-air batteries: Principles, advances, and opportunities

Sujuan Hu and Mingshan Zhu

Energy Storage Materials, 2023, 61, 102866
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Ni-Co ternary nitrides with multiple surface oxides as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for metal-air batteries

Xiaorong Chen, Xinmeng Yu, Guixin Zhang, Sisi Wei, Youguo Huang, Hongqiang Wang, Juantao Jiang, Zhaoling Ma and Qingyu Li

Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2024, 958, 118162
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Advances in heterostructured and atomically dispersed metallic carbon catalysts for efficient oxygen reactions in zinc–air batteries

Pandiyarajan Anand, Lokesh Saravanan, Ching-Wei Tung and Yen-Pei Fu

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2026, 558, 217795
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Zwitterionic hydration-network engineered gel electrolytes: IoN-channel optimization for advanced flexible zinc-air batteries

Tao Xu, Hongyu Zhou, Mutao Lu, Hongjie Chen, Yuxin Chi, Xunzhen Sun, Enlai Hu, Jing Zhang, Fei Lu and Zhongwei Chen

Energy Storage Materials, 2026, 86, 104976
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Polyphenol‐metal coordination derived high‐entropy alloy as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst for Zn‐air batteries

Meng‐Di Hao, Qin Li, Jing‐Han Sun, Deng Liu, Hua‐Long Yu and Rui Liu

Rare Metals, 2025, 44, 2836
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