PGM-Free Fe/N/C and Ultralow Loading Pt/C Hybrid Cathode Catalysts with Enhanced Stability and Activity in PEM Fuel Cells
| Autor: | Ning Chen, Gaixia Zhang, Shuhui Sun, Yuren Wen, Xiaohua Yang, Lei Du, Xiaomin Wang, Yucheng Wu, Jun Zhang, Fu-Kuo Chiang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Materials science
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell 02 engineering and technology 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Electrochemistry 01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy Peroxide Cathode 0104 chemical sciences Catalysis law.invention chemistry.chemical_compound Membrane chemistry Chemical engineering law Electrode General Materials Science 0210 nano-technology Current density |
| Zdroj: | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12:13739-13749 |
| ISSN: | 1944-8252 1944-8244 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acsami.9b18085 |
| Popis: | In this work, the stability behaviors of the state-of-the-art Fe/N/C and Pt/C catalysts (as well as the activation time of the latter) were first systematically investigated, under different cathode catalyst loadings, in the membrane electrode assemblies (MEA) in PEM fuel cells. Based on that, two types of cathode electrodes with the combination of Fe/N/C and Pt/C catalysts were developed (type I: layered hybrid catalysts with Pt/C next to the membrane and type II: uniformly mixed catalysts). In this way, the shortcomings of the Fe/N/C catalyst (the fast decay) and the Pt/C catalyst (the long activation time) can be compensated at the same time. The hybrid catalysts also showed a very short activation time (a few hours vs over 10 h for Pt/C with the same Pt loading). Comparing the two types of hybrid catalysts, type I shows a much higher current density. The loadings of the Fe/N/C and Pt/C catalysts in the hybrid electrode were systematically studied, with optimal values of 1.0 mg cm-2 for Fe/N/C and 0.035 mgPt cm-2 for Pt/C. The Pt loading of this hybrid catalyst (type I) at the cathode only takes ca. 30% of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) target of Pt usage (0.100 mgPt cm-2), while its mass activity of Pt (in H2/O2 PEMFC) is 0.22 A mgPt-1 at 0.9iR-free V, reaching half of the DOE activity target (0.44 A mgPt-1), which is among the best performances reported so far. Via both half-cell and single-cell electrochemical evaluations together with other characterizations, the origin of the improved activity and stability is believed to be the synergistic effect between Pt/C and Fe/N/C catalysts to ORR. This work provides an effective strategy for engineering highly performing MEA for the industrialization of PEM fuel cells. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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