Emerging methanol-tolerant AlN nanowire oxygen reduction electrocatalyst for alkaline direct methanol fuel cell

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lei, M ^a   Wang, J ^b   Li, J R ^c   Wang, Y G ^a   Tang, H L ^c   Wang, W J ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905914085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06013     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Sundarrajan, S., Allakhverdiev, S. I. & Ramakrishna, S. Progress and perspectives in micro direct methanol fuel cell. Int. J. Hydrogen Energ. 37, 8765-8786 (2012).
2. Liu, Z. et al. Sulfur-nitrogen co-doped three-dimensional carbon foams with hierarchical pore structures as efficient metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reactions. Nanoscale 5, 3283-8 (2013).
3. Ahmed, M. & Dincer, I. A review on methanol crossover in direct methanol fuel cells: challenges and achievements. Int. J. Energ. Res. 35, 1213-1228 (2011).
4. Zenith, F. & Krewer, U. Simple and reliable model for estimation of methanol cross-over in direct methanol fuel cells and its application on methanolconcentration control. Energ. Environ. Sci. 4, 519-527 (2011).
5. Wang, Z. H. et al. Research Progress on Pt-Based Anode Catalysts in the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell. Acta Chim. Sinica 71, 1225-1238 (2013).
6. Basri, S., Kamarudin, S. K., Daud, W. R. W. & Yaakub, Z. Nanocatalyst for direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). Int. J. Hydrogen Energ. 35, 7957-7970 (2010).
7. Du, C. Y., Zhao, T. S. & Yang, W. W. Effect of methanol crossover on the cathode behavior of a DMFC: A half-cell investigation. Electrochim. Acta 52, 5266-5271 (2007). (Pubitemid 46533845)
8. Liu, P., Yin, G. P. & Cai, K. D. Investigation on cathode degradation of direct methanol fuel cell. Electrochim. Acta 54, 6178-6183 (2009).
9. Tang, H. L., Pan, M., Jiang, S. P. & Yuan, R. Z. Modification of Nafion (TM) membrane to reduce methanol crossover via self-assembled Pd nanoparticles. Mater. Lett. 59, 3766-3770 (2005). (Pubitemid 41491828)
10. Fu, G. T. et al. One-Pot Water-Based Synthesis of Pt-Pd Alloy Nanoflowers and Their Superior Electrocatalytic Activity for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Remarkable Methanol-Tolerant Ability in Acid Media. J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 9826-9834 (2013).
11. Gao, M. R. et al. A Methanol-Tolerant Pt/CoSe2 Nanobelt Cathode Catalyst for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells. Angew. Chem. Int. Edit 50, 4905-4908 (2011).
12. Wang, D. L. et al. Pt-Decorated PdCo@Pd/C Core-Shell Nanoparticles with Enhanced Stability and Electrocatalytic Activity for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 17664-17666 (2010).
13. Trinh, Q. T., Yang, J. H., Lee, J. Y. & Saeys, M. Computational and experimental study of the Volcano behavior of the oxygen reduction activity of PdM@PdPt/C (M5Pt, Ni, Co, Fe, and Cr) core-shell electrocatalysts J.Catal. 291, 26-35 (2012).
14. Liu, S. H., Zheng, F. S. & Wu, J. R. Preparation of ordered mesoporous carbons containing well-dispersed and highly alloying Pt-Co bimetallic nanoparticles toward methanol-resistant oxygen reduction reaction. Appl. Catal. B-Environ. 108, 81-89 (2011).
15. Taufany, F. et al. Relating Structural Aspects of Bimetallic Pt3Cr1/C Nanoparticles to Their Electrocatalytic Activity, Stability, and Selectivity in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Chem.-Eur. J. 17, 10724-10735 (2011).
16. Yang, J. H., Zhou, W. J., Cheng, C. H., Lee, J. Y. & Liu, Z. L. Pt-Decorated PdFe Nanoparticles as Methanol-Tolerant Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalyst. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2, 119-126 (2010).
17. Lefevre, M., Proietti, E., Jaouen, F. & Dodelet, J. P. Iron-Based Catalysts with Improved Oxygen Reduction Activity in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. Science 324, 71-74 (2009).
18. Feng, Y. J. & Alonso-Vante, N. Nonprecious metal catalysts for the molecular oxygen-reduction reaction. Phys. Status Solid B 245, 1792-1806 (2008).
19. Gong, K. P., Du, F., Xia, Z. H., Durstock, M. & Dai, L. M. Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotube Arrays with High Electrocatalytic Activity for Oxygen Reduction. Science 323, 760-764 (2009).
20. Yang, W., Fellinger, T.-P. & Antonietti, M. Efficient Metal-Free Oxygen Reduction in Alkaline Medium on High-Surface-Area Mesoporous Nitrogen-Doped Carbons Made from Ionic Liquids and Nucleobases. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 206-209 (2010).
21. Li, Y. et al. An oxygen reduction electrocatalyst based on carbon nanotubegraphene complexes. Nat. nanotechnol. 7, 394-400 (2012).
22. Wu, Z.-S. et al. 3D Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Aerogel-Supported Fe3O4 Nanoparticles as Efficient Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 9082-9085 (2012).
23. Liu, Z. et al. Sulfur-nitrogen co-doped three-dimensional carbon foams with hierarchical pore structures as efficient metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reactions. Nanoscale 5, 3283-3288 (2013).
24. Xu, J. X., Dong, G. F., Jin, C. H., Huang, M. H. & Guan, L. H. Sulfur and Nitrogen Co-Doped, Few-Layered Graphene Oxide as a Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen-Reduction Reaction. Chemsuschem 6, 493-499 (2013).
25. Sun, X. J. et al. A Class of High Performance Metal-Free Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts based on Cheap Carbon Blacks. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013).
26. Goswami, G. K.,Nandan, R., Barman, B. K. &Nanda, K. K. Excellent performance of Pt-free cathode in alkaline direct methanol fuel cell at room temperature. J. Mater. Chem. A 1, 3133-3139 (2013).
27. Ye, Y. S. et al. Alkali doped polyvinyl alcohol/graphene electrolyte for direct methanol alkaline fuel cells. J. Power Sources 239, 424-432 (2013).
28. Yu, E. H., Krewer, U. & Scott, K. Principles and Materials Aspects of Direct Alkaline Alcohol Fuel Cells. Energies 3, 1499-1528 (2010).
29. Sun, X. J. et al. Fluorine-Doped Carbon Blacks: Highly Efficient Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ACS Catal. 3, 1726-1729 (2013).
30. Liu, Q. & Zhang, J. Y. Graphene Supported Co-g-C3N4 as a Novel Metal-Macrocyclic Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cells. Langmuir 29, 3821-3828 (2013).
31. Parthasarathy, A., Dave? B., Srinivasan, S., Appleby, A. J. & Martin, C. R. The Platinum Microelectrode/Nafion Interface: An Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopic Analysis of Oxygen Reduction Kinetics and Nafion Characteristics. J. Electrochem. Soc. 139, 1634-1641 (1992).
32. Xie, Z. & Holdcroft, S. Polarization-dependent mass transport parameters for orr in perfluorosulfonic acid ionomer membranes: an EIS study using microelectrodes. J. Electroanal. Chem. 568, 247-260 (2004).
33. Xing, B. & Savadogo, O. Hydrogen/oxygen polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) based on alkaline-doped polybenzimidazole (PBI). Electrochem. commun. 2, 697-702 (2000).
34. Tang, H.,Wang, S., Pan, M. & Yuan, R. Porosity-graded micro-porous layers for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. J.Power Sources 166, 41-46 (2007). (Pubitemid 46356820)
35. Tang, H., Wang, S., Pan, M., Jiang, S. P. & Ruan, Y. Performance of direct methanol fuel cells prepared by hot-pressed MEA and catalyst-coated membrane (CCM). Electrochim. Acta 52, 3714-3718 (2007). (Pubitemid 46274626)