Recent advances in formic acid electro-oxidation: From the fundamental mechanism to electrocatalysts

Z Fang, W Chen - Nanoscale Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Direct formic acid fuel cells have attracted significant attention because of their low fuel
crossover, high safety, and high theoretical power density among all the proton-exchange …

Electrocatalysts for formic acid-powered PEM fuel cells: challenges and prospects

H Cheng, J Wang, C Wu, Z Liu - Energy Material Advances, 2023 - spj.science.org
In view of the drawbacks of rechargeable batteries, such as low mass and volumetric energy
densities, as well as slow charging rate, proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) …

Unravelling the complex causality behind Fe–N–C degradation in fuel cells

G Bae, MM Kim, MH Han, J Cho, DH Kim… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Beyond great advances in initial activity, Fe–N–C catalysts face the next challenge of
stability issue in acidic medium that must be overcome to replace Pt in fuel cell cathode …

pH effects in a model electrocatalytic reaction disentangled

X Zhu, J Huang, M Eikerling - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Varying the solution pH not only changes the reactant concentrations in bulk solution but
also the local reaction environment (LRE) that is shaped furthermore by macroscopic mass …

Tailoring the antipoisoning performance of Pd for formic acid electrooxidation via an ordered PdBi intermetallic

T Shen, S Chen, R Zeng, M Gong, T Zhao, Y Lu… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Pd-based materials are promising electrocatalysts for the formic acid oxidation reaction
(FAOR) but suffer from poor durability due to the poisoning of adsorbed carbon monoxide …

Recent progress of palladium-based electrocatalysts for the formic acid oxidation reaction

T Shen, J Zhang, K Chen, S Deng, D Wang - Energy & Fuels, 2020 - ACS Publications
Direct formic acid fuel cells (DFAFCs) are considered as one of the promising energy
conversion devices. In recent years, Pd-based nanomaterials have attracted widespread …

Shape reconstruction from commercial Pt/C to high-index Pt/C for advanced electrocatalysts

L Ji, M Lin, W Yan, Y Cai, G Li, J Zheng, S Zhou… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Pt-based materials with high-index facets (HIFs) are highly regarded as efficient
electrocatalysts, because of their abundant active step sites. Nevertheless, it is still a …

Development of a high-performance ammonium formate fuel cell

Z Pan, Z Zhang, W Li, X Huo, Y Liu, OC Esan… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Direct formate fuel cells are attractive due to their high theoretical voltage of 1.45 V, facile
and complete formate oxidation in alkaline media, and ease of handling during storage and …

Free Energy Pathway Exploration of Catalytic Formic Acid Decomposition on Pt-Group Metals in Aqueous Surroundings

ZY Hu, LH Luo, C Shang, ZP Liu - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Formic acid is an important platform molecule for hydrogen utilization, where Pt-group
metals are the only catalyst candidates to achieve ambient condition formic acid (FA) …

Nitrate Electroreduction Activation on Platinum

A Ferre-Vilaplana, E Herrero - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nitrate electroreduction on Pt (111) and Pt (100) cannot evolve from bidentate adsorbed
nitrate perpendicular to the surface, as it is generally assumed, because the only plausible …