Recent progress in electrocatalysts and electrodes for portable fuel cells

Ş Neaţu, F Neaţu, IM Chirica, I Borbáth… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fuel cells are devices that transform efficiently the chemical energy of hydrogen or another
fuel into clean electricity. The fuel cell technology is attractive for its high-energy efficiency …

Advanced catalytic materials for ethanol oxidation in direct ethanol fuel cells

Y Zheng, X Wan, X Cheng, K Cheng, Z Dai, Z Liu - Catalysts, 2020 - mdpi.com
Direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFCs) have emerged as promising and advanced power systems
that can considerably reduce fossil fuel dependence, and thus have attracted worldwide …

Role of Ni in PtNi bimetallic electrocatalysts for hydrogen and value-added chemicals coproduction via glycerol electrooxidation

H Luo, VY Yukuhiro, PS Fernández, J Feng… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Pt-based bimetallic electrocatalysts are promising candidates to convert surplus glycerol
from the biodiesel industry to value-added chemicals and coproduce hydrogen. It is …

Pt decorated Ti3C2 MXene for enhanced methanol oxidation reaction

Y Wang, J Wang, G Han, C Du, Q Deng, Y Gao… - Ceramics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Carbon support used in commercial Pt/C commonly suffers from corrosion under harsh
electrooxidation environment endowed by anodic potential. An alternative support with …

Glycine-assisted fabrication of N-doped graphene-supported uniform multipetal PtAg nanoflowers for enhanced ethanol and ethylene glycol oxidation

Y Zhang, F Gao, P Song, J Wang, J Guo… - ACS Sustainable …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The pursuit of efficient electrocatalysts with better activity, stability, and controllable
morphology and size for alcohol oxidation is of decisive significance yet challenging for the …

A review of approaches for the design of high-performance electrocatalysts for ethanol electrooxidation

C Li, K Wang, D **e - Surfaces and Interfaces, 2022 - Elsevier
In spite of tremendous efforts invested over the past decade, most electrocatalysts for
ethanol electrooxidation suffer from highly limited activity, stability and selectivity towards the …

Enhanced electrocatalytic activity of PtCu bimetallic nanoparticles on CeO2/carbon nanotubes for methanol electro-oxidation

C Liu, L Zhang, L Sun, W Wang, Z Chen - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2020 - Elsevier
To achieve the practical application of direct methanol fuel cells, it is highly important to
develop effective electrocatalyst with high activity and favorable durability. Herein, we report …

Structurally ordered PtSn intermetallic nanoparticles supported on ATO for efficient methanol oxidation reaction

W Chen, Z Lei, T Zeng, L Wang, N Cheng, Y Tan, S Mu - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of cost-effective methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) catalysts with a high
activity and stability is highly desirable for direct methanol fuel cells. In this study, the …

High-performance alcohol electrooxidation on Pt 3 Sn–SnO 2 nanocatalysts synthesized through the transformation of Pt–Sn nanoparticles

L Wang, W Wu, Z Lei, T Zeng, Y Tan… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, Pt3Sn–SnO2 supported on N-doped graphene (Pt3Sn–SnO2/NG) was
synthesized through the in situ transformation of Pt–Sn/NG by annealing in an air …

High selectivity PtRh/RGO catalysts for ethanol electro-oxidation at low potentials: enhancing the efficiency of CO2 from alcoholic groups

F Zhu, K Tu, L Huang, X Qu, J Zhang, H Liao, Z Zhou… - Electrochimica …, 2018 - Elsevier
Conversion the ethanol into CO 2 at low potential through Csingle bondC bond cleavage is
vital to further improve the utilization of ethanol in direct ethanol fuel cells. The addition of Rh …