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JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 662, Issue 1, Pages 267-273Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2011.07.029
Keywords
Se/Ru; Oxygen reduction; Methanol tolerance; Direct methanol fuel cell
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- Department of Energy (DOE): Office of Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies
- US Army Research Office
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
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The synthesis, electrochemical analysis, and hydrogen-air fuel cell testing results for a new type of Se/Ru catalyst called Se/Ru(aq) were described in Part 1. In this second report, we present methanol tolerance studies and direct methanol fuel cell testing for the same catalyst. A methanol-tolerant catalyst does not oxidize methanol, nor becomes depolarized by its presence, which is a desirable property for DMFC cathodes used with methanol-permeable membranes or in mixed-reactant designs. In perchloric acid electrolyte, the Se/Ru(aq) catalyst was found to be highly tolerant to 1.0 M methanol. More importantly, in fuel-cell testing as a DMFC cathode, Se/Ru(aq) was shown to be highly tolerant to methanol crossing through the membrane (from the anode side) up to a feed concentration of 17 M. The results were compared to those obtained using unmodified Ru black and Pt black at the DMFC cathode, in order to gain insight into the catalyst function and to compare the performance to relevant benchmarks. Compared to Pt cathodes, the performance of Se/Ru(aq) is significantly better at high methanol concentrations (e.g., 17 M), suggesting their use either in DMFCs with high methanol feed concentrations or in mixed-reactant fuel cells. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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