A Study on the Efficiency Improvement of Zinc-Air Primary Battery by Synthesizing Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Based on ZIF-67

Zinc-air batteries are attracting attention nowadays due to their environment-friendliness, stability, and high efficiency. However new catalyst development is necessary for commercialization with a slow reaction rate of ORR (Oxygen Reduction Reaction) occurring in the cathode and low efficiency compared to the price of Pt/C catalysts. This study produced a catalyst based on the ZIF-67 (Zeolic Imidazolate Framework-67) to compensate for this, and the effects of PVP addition, carbonization, and sulfidation on the catalyst efficiency were confirmed in the ZIF-67 synthesis process. As a result of the analysis, when 0.52 mmol of PVP was added and carbonization and sulfidation processes were performed, high efficiency, high driving force, stability, and life comparable to Pt/C catalyst were shown. Therefore, the ZIF-67-based oxygen reduction reaction catalyst is expected to contribute to the commercialization of Zinc-air batteries by replacing the existing Pt/C catalyst.