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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 110, Issue 51, Pages 25916-25925Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp065923g
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Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were grown on the fibers of a commercial porous carbon paper used as carbon-collecting electrodes in fuel cells. The tubes were then covered with Pt nanoparticles in order to test these gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) for oxygen reduction in H2SO4 solution and in H-2/O-2 fuel cells. The Pt nanoparticles were characterized by cyclic voltammetry, transmission electron microscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The majority of the Pt particles are 3 nm in size with a mean size of 4.1 nm. They have an electrochemically active surface area of 60 m(2)/g Pt for Pt loadings of 0.1-0.45 mg Pt/cm(2). Although the electroactive Pt surface area is larger for commercial electrodes of similar loadings, Pt/MWCNT electrodes largely outperform the commercial electrode for the oxygen reduction reaction in GDE experiments using H2SO4 at pH 1. On the other hand, when the same electrodes are used as the cathode in a H-2/O-2 fuel cell, they perform only slightly better than the commercial electrodes in the potential range going from similar to 0.9 to similar to 0.7 V and have a lower performance at lower voltages.
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