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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 165, Issue 7, Pages A1254-A1262Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/2.0321807jes
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- EU grant FP7 (NECOBAUT Grant) [314159]
- CONACYT, Mexico
- Accordo di Programma CNR-MiSE, Gruppo tematico Sistema Elettrico Nazionale - Progetto: Sistemi elettrochimici per l'accumulo di energia
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Air electrode development is one of the most challenging steps in the design of lightweight and efficient metal-air batteries and fuel cells. The best performing oxygen catalysts often contain precious metals at a high manufacturing cost. In this paper, two low-cost catalysts for the oxygen reduction (ORR) and evolution reactions (OER), based on LSFCO perovskite and Ni-Fe hexacyanoferrate, were compared with a precious metal palladium catalyst on carbon (Pd/C). LSFCO/C showed the best all-round performance as a single bifunctional catalyst but Pd/C had the strongest ORR activity. Ni-Fe hexacyanoferrate is straightforward to manufacture in industrial quantities, and is more active for the OER than palladium and LSFCO perovskite at small loadings < 5 mg cm(-2). By mixing a small loading of Pd/C with Ni-Fe hexacyanoferrate, lower overpotentials for both the ORR and OER can be reached, with the difference in potential between the two reactions being only 0.62 V at a current density of 20 mA cm(-2). The effect of catalyst loading of each catalyst on the gas-diffusion electrode was studied, and rotating disk voltammetry was used to study the catalytic behavior of the Ni-Fe hexacyanoferrate catalyst. (C) 2018 The Electrochemical Society.
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