Durable hybrid electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Xiao, Fei; Xu, Gui-Liang; Sun, Cheng-Jun; Hwang, Inhui; Xu, Mingjie; Wu, Hsi-wen; Wei, Zidong; Pan, Xiaoqing; Amine, Khalil; Shao, Minhua

doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105192

Durable hybrid electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Journal Article · Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Nano Energy

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105192· OSTI ID:1776817

Xiao, Fei ^[1]; Xu, Gui-Liang ^[2]; Sun, Cheng-Jun ^[2]; Hwang, Inhui ^[3]; Xu, Mingjie ^[4]; Wu, Hsi-wen ^[1]; Wei, Zidong ^[5]; Pan, Xiaoqing ^[6]; Amine, Khalil ^[7]; Shao, Minhua ^[8]

Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Kowloon (Hong Kong)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Jeonbuk National Univ., Jeonju (South Korea)
Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Guangzhou (China). Fok Ying Tung Research Inst.; Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Chongqing Univ. (China)
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Univ. (IAU), Dammam (Saudi Arabia)
Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Kowloon (Hong Kong); Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Guangzhou (China). Fok Ying Tung Research Inst.; Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Kowloon (Hong Kong). Energy Inst.

The low durability of carbon-based non-precious metal electrocatalysts hinders their practical applications in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). In this study, we rationally design a hybrid Pt-Fe-N-C electrocatalyst with unprecedented durability. It consists of abundant Pt and Fe single atoms homogeneously dispersed on the nitrogen-doped carbon support and a small amount of Pt-Fe alloy nanoparticles. A PEMFC with Pt-Fe-N-C as the cathode shows a larger peak power density (0.75 W cm^-2) than that with Fe-N-C as the cathode (0.50 W cm^-2). The remarkable durability of Pt-Fe-N-C is reflected from no noticeable drop in the half-wave potential after 70000 potential cycles between 0.6 and 1.0 V in the liquid cell, and 80% current retention after 85 h of potential hold at 0.4 V in the fuel cell. This work demonstrates the feasibility of improving the durability of Fe-N-C material via ultra-low Pt doping and makes non-precious metal electrocatalysts be close to achieving commercial metrics.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Key R&D Program of China; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1776817

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1809801

Journal Information:: Nano Energy, Journal Name: Nano Energy Vol. 77; ISSN 2211-2855

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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