Small Addition of Boron in Palladium Catalyst, Big Improvement in Fuel Cell's Performance: What May Interfacial Spectroelectrochemistry Tell?

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 7133-7138

  Jiang, Kun ^a   Chang, Jinfa ^b   Wang, Han ^a   Brimaud, Sylvain ^c   Xing, Wei ^b   Behm, R Jürgen ^c   Cai, Wen Bin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy; boron doped palladium; direct formic acid fuel cell; electrocatalysis; interfacial chemistry

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FORMIC ACID; FUEL CELLS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PALLADIUM; SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; BORON-DOPED; CONTINUOUS OPERATION; DIRECT FORMIC ACID FUEL CELLS; INTERFACIAL BEHAVIORS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER DENSITIES; PALLADIUM CATALYST; PD-BASED CATALYST;

FORMIC ACID FUEL CELLS (FAFC);

EID: 84962081908     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b00416     Document Type: Article

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