期刊
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
卷 277, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124137
关键词
Nickel-based composites; Microbial fuel cells; Oxygen reduction performance; Stability
资金
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019M663382]
- Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou City [201704020074]
- NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund [U1501233]
- Research Team Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2016A030312009]
- Program of the Guangdong Science and Technology Department [2017B020238002]
Microbial fuel cell as a sustainable microbial-electrochemical reactor can harvest bio-power from wastewater by the oxidation of electro-active bacteria on the anode, while its power output is greatly relying on the oxygen reduction reaction performance of the cathode electro-catalysts. Here, the dahlia flower-like nickel-based composites have been synthesized through a hydrothermal reaction, and was used as an efficient oxygen reduction reaction catalyst in a single chamber microbial fuel cell. The physical characterization of surface structure suggests the composites have successfully prepared. The MFC with Ni-melamine cathode can achieve obviously higher power density of 378.08 mW m(-2) than those of Ni-urea cathode (244.02 mW m(-2)) and Ni-dicyandiamide cathode (201.67 mW m(-2)). A series of electrochemical characterization suggests that Ni-melamine electrode possesses larger electrochemical active surface area, lower charge transfer resistance, and higher oxygen reduction performance than those of Ni-urea electrode and Ni-dicyandiamide electrode. The electrochemical measurements have also demonstrated that nickel-melamine composites can be involved in oxygen reduction reaction via a four-electron route due to the high-efficient electrocatalytic activity. In addition, the maximum power density of nickel-based composites is obviously increased with an increase of catalysts coating amounts. When the loading amounts are 4 mg cm(-2), the power density for nickel-based composites is improved to 1421.4 mW m(-2), which is 1.68 times higher than that of Pt/C due to the introduction of oxygen vacancies and nitrogen element. Thus, nickel-based composite is an effective and promising catalyst material for microbial fuel cell to substitute Pt/C for oxygen reduction reaction application. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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