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NATURE CHEMISTRY
卷 5, 期 4, 页码 300-306出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.1574
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- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences, US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
The development of hydrogen-based energy sources as viable alternatives to fossil-fuel technologies has revolutionized clean energy production using fuel cells. However, to date, the slow rate of the hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) in alkaline environments has hindered advances in alkaline fuel cell systems. Here, we address this by studying the trends in the activity of the HOR in alkaline environments. We demonstrate that it can be enhanced more than fivefold compared to state-of-the-art platinum catalysts. The maximum activity is found for materials (Ir and Pt-0.1 Ru-0.9) with an optimal balance between the active sites that are required for the adsorption/dissociation of H-2 and for the adsorption of hydroxyl species (OHad). We propose that the more oxophilic sites on Ir (defects) and PtRu material (Ru atoms) electrodes facilitate the adsorption of OHad species. Those then react with the hydrogen intermediates (H-ad) that are adsorbed on more noble surface sites.
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