Recent advances in electrocatalysts, mechanism, and cell architecture for direct formic acid fuel cells

R Bhaskaran, BG Abraham… - … Reviews: Energy and …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Direct formic acid fuel cells (DFAFCs) are potential candidates as power sources for various
applications, especially in portable electronics and medical diagnostic devices. Though they …

General strategy for evaluating the d-band center shift and ethanol oxidation reaction pathway towards Pt-based electrocatalysts

JH Zheng, G Li, JM Zhang, N Cheng, LF Ji… - Science China …, 2023‏ - Springer
The catalytic performance of Pt-based catalysts depends sensitively on their d-band centers.
Nevertheless, there are still huge challenges to evaluate their d-band centers from …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking catalysts for formic acid/formate electrooxidation

SJ Folkman, J González-Cobos, S Giancola… - Molecules, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Energy production and consumption without the use of fossil fuels are amongst the biggest
challenges currently facing humankind and the scientific community. Huge efforts have been …

Temperature-Dependent Kinetic Studies of the Chlorine Evolution Reaction over RuO2(110) Model Electrodes

I Sohrabnejad-Eskan, A Goryachev, KS Exner… - ACS …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Ultrathin single-crystalline RuO2 (110) films supported on Ru (0001) are employed as model
electrodes to extract kinetic information about the industrially important chlorine evolution …

Formic acid oxidation on platinum electrodes: a detailed mechanism supported by experiments and calculations on well-defined surfaces

A Ferre-Vilaplana, JV Perales-Rondón… - Journal of Materials …, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In spite of the fact that the formic acid oxidation reaction on electrode surfaces has been
extensively investigated, a detailed mechanism explaining all the available experimental …

Further insights into the formic acid oxidation mechanism on platinum: pH and anion adsorption effects

JV Perales-Rondon, S Brimaud, J Solla-Gullon… - Electrochimica …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The influence of the electrolyte pH in the formic acid oxidation reaction on a polyoriented Pt
electrode in the presence of different anions, including sulfate, perchlorate, phosphate and …

[HTML][HTML] The role of coordinating anions in the supporting electrolyte during the electrocatalytic oxidation of glycerol on Pt electrodes

G Melle, JM Feliu, E Herrero, G Tremiliosi-Filho… - Electrochimica …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This research explores the glycerol electrooxidation reaction (GEOR) on a platinum
electrode, with a special emphasis on the role of the chemical properties of the anion …

Formic acid oxidation on platinum: a simple mechanistic study

KA Schwarz, R Sundararaman, TP Moffat… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The oxidation of small organic acids on noble metal surfaces under electrocatalytic
conditions is important for the operation of fuel cells and is of scientific interest, but the basic …

[HTML][HTML] Standard-state entropies and their impact on the potential-dependent apparent activation energy in electrocatalysis

KS Exner - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The apparent activation energy, E app, is a common measure in thermal catalysis to discuss
the activity and limiting steps of catalytic processes on solid-state materials. Recently, the …

Apparent activation energy in electrochemical multistep reactions: A description via sensitivities and degrees of rate control

A Calderón-Cárdenas, EA Paredes-Salazar… - ACS …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Activation energy is a well-known empirical parameter in chemical kinetics that
characterizes the dependence of the chemical rate coefficients on the temperature and …