Journal
SMALL
Volume 17, Issue 48, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202006805
Keywords
carbon corrosion; carbon support; electrocatalysts; PEM fuel cell; Pt catalysts
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- U.S. DOE-EERE Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office through the Advanced Electro-Catalysts through Crystallographic Enhancement project
- LANL LDRD program [20200200DR]
- National Science Foundation [CBET-1604392]
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The insufficient stability of current carbon supported Pt and Pt alloy catalysts poses a significant barrier for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. Efforts have been made to develop durable carbon-based supports with innovative nanostructure design and synthesis in recent years. Strategies to tailor carbon structures and enhance metal-support interactions have been summarized to improve support stability and performance of Pt catalysts in fuel cells.
Insufficient stability of current carbon supported Pt and Pt alloy catalysts is a significant barrier for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). As a primary degradation cause to trigger Pt nanoparticle migration, dissolution, and aggregation, carbon corrosion remains a significant challenge. Compared with enhancing Pt and PtM alloy particle stability, improving support stability is rather challenging due to carbon's thermodynamic instability under fuel cell operation. In recent years, significant efforts have been made to develop highly durable carbon-based supports concerning innovative nanostructure design and synthesis along with mechanistic understanding. This review critically discusses recent progress in developing carbon-based materials for Pt catalysts and provides synthesis-structure-performance correlations to elucidate underlying stability enhancement mechanisms. The mechanisms and impacts of carbon support degradation on Pt catalyst performance are first discussed. The general strategies are summarized to tailor the carbon structures and strengthen the metal-support interactions, followed by discussions on how these designs lead to enhanced support stability. Based on current experimental and theoretical studies, the critical features of carbon supports are analyzed concerning their impacts on the performance and durability of Pt catalysts in fuel cells. Finally, the perspectives are shared on future directions to develop advanced carbon materials with favorable morphologies and nanostructures to increase Pt utilization, strengthen metal-support interactions, facilitate mass/charge transfer, and enhance corrosion resistance.
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