کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
45517 46413 2016 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
High efficiency of Pt2+- CeO2 novel thin film catalyst as anode for proton exchange membrane fuel cells
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی شیمی کاتالیزور
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
High efficiency of Pt2+- CeO2 novel thin film catalyst as anode for proton exchange membrane fuel cells
چکیده انگلیسی


• Pt doped cerium oxide thin film electrocatalyst.
• Magnetron sputtering deposition of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell anode.
• PEMFC anode with high activity and very low Pt content.
• Pt2+ species in cerium oxide exhibit high electrocatalytic activity as PEMFC anode.
• DFT calculations show high stability of Pt2+ species in cerium oxide against reduction.

The elevated price of Pt limits the large-scale implementation of commercial proton exchange membrane fuel cells, which effectively convert chemical energy into electricity. In order to increase the cost-efficiency in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells, we have designed a family of novel anode catalysts consisting of thin films of ceria with low Pt loadings sputtered on a nanostructured carbon support. Remarkably, only such small amounts of Pt are necessary for achieving power density values comparable to the reference commercial catalysts, which results in excellent specific activities of our samples. By combining photoelectron spectroscopy and catalytic performance analysis, we have shown that the surface Pt2+ species in cerium oxide exhibit high electrocatalytic activity. Density functional theory calculations show that the great stability of Pt2+ species on ceria makes these resistant to reduction by hydrogenation and suggests that the formation of such stable surface complexes prevents degradation of the nanostructured composite.

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ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Applied Catalysis B: Environmental - Volume 197, 15 November 2016, Pages 262–270
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