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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 55, Issue 26, Pages 7628-7633Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2009.10.079
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Multimodal porous carbon; Catalyst support; Pt-Ru; Anode; Proton exchange membrane fuel cell
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A simple and easy sol-gel approach has been developed to directly synthesize in situ three-dimensionally interconnected uniform ordered bimodal porous silica (BPS) incorporating both the macroporosity and mesoporosity in the lattice without extra synthesis process performed in previous work. Multimodal porous carbon (MPC) was fabricated through the inverse replication of the BPS. The unique structural characteristics such as well-developed 3-D interconnected ordered macropore framework with open mesopores embedded in the macropore walls, large surface area (1120 m(2) g(-1)) and mesopore volume (1.95 cm(3) g(-1)) make MPC very attractive as an anode catalyst support in polymer exchange membrane fuel cell. The MPC-supported Pt-Ru alloy catalyst has demonstrated much higher power density toward hydrogen oxidation than the commercial carbon black Vulcan XC-72-supported ones. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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