Journal of Power Sources ( IF 8.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2020.228860 Jungyeon Ji , Yongjin Chung , Yongchai Kwon
A catalyst capable of high performance and good durability is developed for use in anode of flow-type membraneless hydrogen peroxide fuel cells (HPFCs). For that, cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) is immobilized onto reduced graphene oxide (rGO) linked to polyacrylic acid (PAA) surface modifier (rGO/PAA/CoPc). CoPc moiety containing PAA is tightly immobilized due to physical entrapment, axial ligand and stabilization of intermediates. According to evaluations, the amount of CoPc immobilized in rGO/PAA/CoPc is twice than that in rGO/CoPc because rGO and CoPc are weakly connected by π-π conjugation without PAA acting as axial ligand to form coordinate bond with Co core within CoPc. In rGO/PAA/CoPc, current density for hydrogen peroxide oxidation reaction (HPOR) is 2.7 times higher than that measured in rGO/CoPc due to axial ligand role of PAA activating two HPOR pathways, wheras rGO/CoPc is only linked to one HPOR pathway. Even in stability test, rGO/PAA/CoPc preserves 90.0% of its initial HPOR current density, while that of Ni bulk is decreased by 30.6%. When performance of HPFC using rGO/PAA/CoPc is measured with a low concentration of H2O2 (0.1 mol L-1) under physiological condition, its maximum power density (72.1 ± 2.68 μWcm−2) is better than that of HPFC using rGO/CoPc (38.3 ± 0.20 μWcm−2).
中文翻译:
酞菁钴和聚丙烯酸对过氧化氢氧化反应活性和过氧化氢燃料电池性能的影响
开发了一种高性能和高耐久性的催化剂,用于流动型无膜过氧化氢燃料电池(HPFC)的阳极。为此,将钴酞菁(CoPc)固定在与聚丙烯酸(PAA)表面改性剂(rGO / PAA / CoPc)连接的还原氧化石墨烯(rGO)上。由于物理截留,轴向配体和中间体的稳定化,含有CoPc部分的PAA被紧密固定。根据评估,固定在rGO / PAA / CoPc中的CoPc量是rGO / CoPc的两倍,这是因为rGO和CoPc通过π-π共轭弱连接而没有PAA作为轴向配体与CoPc中的Co核形成配位键。在rGO / PAA / CoPc中,过氧化氢氧化反应(HPOR)的电流密度为2。由于PAA激活两个HPOR途径的轴向配体作用,因此比rGO / CoPc高7倍,而rGO / CoPc仅与一个HPOR途径相关。即使在稳定性测试中,rGO / PAA / CoPc仍可保留其初始HPOR电流密度的90.0%,而镍的体积降低了30.6%。使用低浓度H来测量使用rGO / PAA / CoPc的HPFC的性能时在生理条件下使用2 O 2(0.1 mol L -1),其最大功率密度(72.1±2.68μWcm -2)优于使用rGO / CoPc(38.3±0.20μWcm -2)的HPFC 。