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Platinum and Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

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  • Van Men Truong

    (Graduate Institute of Precision Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan)

  • Julian Richard Tolchard

    (Sustainable Energy Department, SINTEF Industri, Postboks 4760 Torgarden, 7465 Trondheim, Norway)

  • Jørgen Svendby

    (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway)

  • Maidhily Manikandan

    (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway)

  • Hamish A. Miller

    (Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organometallici (CNR-ICCOM), via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy)

  • Svein Sunde

    (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway)

  • Hsiharng Yang

    (Graduate Institute of Precision Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan)

  • Dario R. Dekel

    (The Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering and the Nancy & Stephan Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP), Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel)

  • Alejandro Oyarce Barnett

    (Sustainable Energy Department, SINTEF Industri, Postboks 4760 Torgarden, 7465 Trondheim, Norway
    Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway)

Abstract

The development of active hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts for use in anion exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs), which are free from platinum group metals (PGMs), is expected to bring this technology one step closer to commercial applications. This paper reports our recent progress developing HOR Pt-free and PGM-free catalysts (Pd/CeO 2 and NiCo/C, respectively), and ORR PGM-free Co 3 O 4 for AEMFCs. The catalysts were prepared by different synthesis techniques and characterized by both physical-chemical and electrochemical methods. A hydrothermally synthesized Co 3 O 4 + C composite ORR catalyst used in combination with Pt/C as HOR catalyst shows good H 2 /O 2 AEMFC performance (peak power density of ~388 mW cm −2 ), while the same catalyst coupled with our flame spray pyrolysis synthesised Pd/CeO 2 anode catalysts reaches peak power densities of ~309 mW cm −2 . Changing the anode to nanostructured NiCo/C catalyst, the performance is significantly reduced. This study confirms previous conclusions, that is indeed possible to develop high performing AEMFCs free from Pt; however, the challenge to achieve completely PGM-free AEMFCs still remains.

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  • Van Men Truong & Julian Richard Tolchard & Jørgen Svendby & Maidhily Manikandan & Hamish A. Miller & Svein Sunde & Hsiharng Yang & Dario R. Dekel & Alejandro Oyarce Barnett, 2020. "Platinum and Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-21, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:13:y:2020:i:3:p:582-:d:313515
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    1. Ramesh K. Singh & John C. Douglin & Lanjie Jiang & Karam Yassin & Simon Brandon & Dario R. Dekel, 2023. "CoO x -Fe 3 O 4 /N-rGO Oxygen Reduction Catalyst for Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(8), pages 1-18, April.

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