Environmental aspects of direct methanol fuel cell: Experimental detection of methanol electro-oxidation products

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1847-1855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmut Bayramoglu ◽  
Zeynep İlbay
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Direct Methanol Fuel Cell ◽  
Oxidation Products ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Experimental Detection ◽  
Direct Methanol ◽  
Electro Oxidation ◽  
Methanol Fuel Cell

Methanol electro-oxidation and direct methanol fuel cell using Pt/Rh and Pt/Ru/Rh alloy catalysts

2004 ◽  
Vol 50 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 787-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong-Ho Choi ◽  
Kyung-Won Park ◽  
In-Su Park ◽  
Woo-Hyun Nam ◽  
Yung-Eun Sung
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Direct Methanol Fuel Cell ◽  
Direct Methanol ◽  
Electro Oxidation ◽  
Methanol Fuel Cell ◽  
Alloy Catalysts

Synthesis and Characterization of PtCo Alloy Nanoparticles Supported on a Reduced Graphene Oxide/g-C3N4 Composite for Efficient Methanol Electro-Oxidation

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1721-1727
Author(s):  
Richa Baronia ◽  
Jyoti Goel ◽  
Sunil Kumar Singhal
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Direct Methanol Fuel Cell ◽  
Support Material ◽  
Oxidation Of Methanol ◽  
Reduced Graphene ◽  
Direct Methanol ◽  
Electro Oxidation ◽  
Methanol Fuel Cell

In the development of direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) the fabrication of an anode comprising of a Pt or Pt-based bi or tri-metallic alloys nanoparticles on a suitable support material having higher stability, higher surface area, electrical conductivity and strong interaction is very important. In the present work we have solved this problem by using a nanocomposite of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) as the support material and deposited PtCo nanoparticles by in-situ chemical reduction. The electro-oxidation of methanol is carried out in an acidic medium. The electrochemical behaviour of as-synthesized PtCo/rGO-gC3N4 catalyst was found to be much superior to Pt/rGO-g-C3N4 catalysts towards electro-oxidation of methanol and is mainly due to the homogeneous dispersion of PtCo nanoparticles onto rGO-g-C3N4 nano composite, higher electrical conductivity and a strong interaction between metal nanoparticles and N group of the support material. By using the as-synthesized electro-catalyst the adsorption or poisoning of Pt due to CO is greatly reduced and more active Pt sites are created for the electro-oxidation of methanol. Thus, the as-synthesized electro-catalyst can be used as an efficient anode material in a direct methanol fuel cell.

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