聚合物改性炭黑负载Pt-Au催化剂对甲醇的电催化氧化活性.pdfVIP

Abstract Direct methanol fuel cell is one of the most suitable and promising options for portable devices and automobiles, due to the high theoretical energy density, the ease of transportation and storage, a simple structure and great security. Electrocatalytic materials are a major obstacle for fuel cell technology. Platinum has the highest activity toward DMFC, but still suffers from several drawbacks including slow kinetics, low efficiency, high cost and limited resource, which is a great obstacle for DMFC commercialization. Two methods were tried to improve the performance of anode platinum catalysts for DMFC, one was to add gold to platinum to form a bimetallic catalyst, the other was to modify carbon black using chitosan and polyaniline to obtain composite material as support. All materials were characterized by N -physical adsorption, UV-visible absorption 2 spectroscopy (UV-Vis), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) techniques. The activities and stabilities of these materials for electrocatalytic oxidation reaction of methanol were evaluated by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and chronoamperograms, respectively. Some innovative results were obtained and summarized as follows: 1. Low activities were found in all catalysts using activated carbon as support although the activity of Pt-Au/AC catalyst is significantly higher than that of Pt/AC and Au/AC catalysts for electrocatalytic oxidation reaction of methanol. Adding gold to platinum can improve effectively the utilization of platinum. When carbon support is treated with dilute HNO or HCl solution, 3 supported catalyst shown lower activity. Activated carbon is not suitable as electrode material for i