Ordered CoPt oxygen reduction catalyst with high performance and durability

Pan, Yung-Tin; Li, Dongguo; Sharma, Shubham; Wang, Chenyu; Zachman, Michael J.; Wegener, Evan C.; Kropf, A. Jeremy; Kim, Yu Seung; Myers, Deborah J.; Peterson, Andrew A.; Cullen, David A.; Spendelow, Jacob S.

doi:10.1016/j.checat.2022.10.030

Ordered CoPt oxygen reduction catalyst with high performance and durability

Journal Article · Wed Nov 16 00:00:00 EST 2022 · Chem Catalysis

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.checat.2022.10.030· OSTI ID:1907227

^[1]; Li, Dongguo ^[1]; Sharma, Shubham ^[2]; ^[1]; ^[3]; Wegener, Evan C. ^[4]; Kropf, A. Jeremy ^[4]; Kim, Yu Seung ^[1]; Myers, Deborah J. ^[4]; Peterson, Andrew A. ^[2]; ^[3]; ^[1]

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Brown University, Providence, RI (United States)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)

A high-performance and durable polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell cathode catalyst composed of an ordered L10–CoPt core and a thin Pt shell was designed and prepared. Under practical fuel cell membrane electrode assembly testing conditions, the cathode catalyst showed an outstanding initial mass activity of 0.6 A/mgPt, which satisfies the U.S. Department of Energy performance target while also meeting the durability target of less than 40% loss in mass activity after 30,000 accelerated stress test voltage cycles. The high structural stability of the L10–CoPt@Pt-shell catalyst was confirmed by postmortem materials characterization, and the origin of this robustness was revealed by density functional theory calculations, where the barriers for diffusion of Co atoms were observed to be significantly increased in the ordered intermetallic core.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1907227

Journal Information:: Chem Catalysis, Journal Name: Chem Catalysis Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 2; ISSN 2667-1093

Publisher:: Cell PressCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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