Fig. 6: Rechargeable Zn–air battery performance and durability of multilevel-disordered HEO cathodes compared with Pt/C + IrO2 benchmarks.

a Schematic illustration of construction of ZAB (at 6.0 M KOH + 0.2 M Zn(Ac)2, room temperature); b OCP curves; c specific capacity test curve for HEO; d power density curves; e rate capabilities at different rates from 2 to 40 mA cm−2 and back to 2 mA cm−2; f long-term cycling performances at charging/discharging rate of 5 mA cm−2 (5 min charge and 5 min discharge); g schematic of multilevel disorder in HEO for high performance ZABs.