Boosting the performance of formic acid microfluidic fuel cell: Oxygen annealing enhanced Pd@graphene electrocatalyst

Dawei Li; Hong Xu; Li Zhang; Dennis Y. C. Leung; Filipe Vilela; Huizhi Wang; Jin Xuan

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.05.019

Boosting the performance of formic acid microfluidic fuel cell: Oxygen annealing enhanced Pd@graphene electrocatalyst

Dawei Li
, Hong Xu
, Li Zhang
, Dennis Y. C. Leung
, Filipe Vilela
, Huizhi Wang
, Jin Xuan

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A new oxygen-annealing treatment for Pd supported on graphene was employed to enhance the electro-catalytic performance in formic acid microfluidic fuel cells. Experiments show that both the electro-oxidation reactivity and CO tolerance of the annealed catalyst are significantly improved. When testing the fuel cell, the maximum power density with annealed catalyst is 41% higher than the unannealed Pd@graphene catalyst, and 85% higher than Pd@Vulcan XC-72. This enhancement is attributed to the Pdsingle bondO bond formation during the oxygen annealing step, which induces greater CO electro-oxidation reactivity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10249–10254
Number of pages	6
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	41
Issue number	24
Early online date	21 May 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.05.019
Publication status	Published - 29 Jun 2016

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