期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
卷 44, 期 59, 页码 31423-31433出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.10.003
关键词
Human blood as fuel; Photo-microfluidic fuel cell; Photo-electrocatalyst materials; Photo/electrochemical oxidation; Visible-light; ZnO/Au composites
资金
- National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Mexico [2017-INFR-280299]
- CONACYT [513]
The purpose of this work was the evaluation of a microfluidic fuel cell (mu FC), in which human blood glucose was photo/electrochemically oxidized. In this regard, ZnO/Au composites with different Au content (1, 2 and 3%) were synthesized, as well as physicochemical and electrochemically characterized. In order to know if these ZnO/Au composites would serve as photo-electrocatalysts in a mu FC, their photo- and electrochemical activities were analyzed. In this sense, the optical band gap of composites was determined as 3.15 eV, showing the typical surface plasmon resonance between 530 and 550 nm, while the electrocatalytic activity of ZnO/Au composites was evaluated in terms of the 5 mM glucose, showing that the minimum negative potential shift of the glucose oxidation peak corresponds to the composite with 3% of Au content. A mu FC was fabricated using ZnO/Au 3% as photo-anode under visible-light, Pt/C as air-breathing cathode, and human blood and air coming from environment as fuel and oxidant, respectively. It was observed that mu FC presented a 1.5-fold more power density under visible-light than in the darkness. This work represents an advantage in the use of photo-electrocatalyst materials towards the development of a new type of air-breathing photo-microfluidic fuel cells employing physiological fluids opening the possibility to be used as a power source in non-implantable medical devices. (C) 2019 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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