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RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Volume 46, Issue 5, Pages 530-536Publisher
PLEIADES PUBLISHING INC
DOI: 10.1134/S102319351005006X
Keywords
fuel cell; potential; solid polymeric electrolyte; binary catalysts; oxygen reduction; platinum; phosphoric acid
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- Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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The high-temperature synthesis based on commercial catalyst E-TEK (40% Pt) using cobalt, chromium, and iron organic precursors as well as d-metal salts yielded PtM (1:1) catalysts (PtCo, PtCr, PtMn, PtNi, PtFe, and PtV) for electroreduction of molecular oxygen in concentrated H3PO4 at the temperature of 160A degrees C. The phase composition of the synthesized catalysts was studied by powder diffraction. The electrochemical measurements were carried out in 15 M H3PO4 at 20 and 160A degrees C using a model gas diffusion electrode. An assumption was made that close charging curves recorded for synthesized PtM catalysts in both hydrogen and oxygen adsorption ranges were due to formation of the core-shell structure: alloy core and surface layers enriched with platinum. The Tafel curves of molecular oxygen reduction in 15 M H3PO4 at 160A degrees C were characterized with the sole slope of 0.10 to 0.11 V. The catalytic activity in the range of potentials from 0.8 to 0.9 V (RHE) was shown approximately twice as that of pure platinum catalyst. The highest activity was recorded for PtCo and PtCr binary catalysts. Their use in middle-temperature hydrogen-air fuel cells with solid polymeric electrolyte based on polybenzimidazole doped with phosphoric acid enabled 2- to 3-fold decrease of the platinum share in the cathode.
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