Preparation of non-precious metal catalysts for PEMFC cathode from pyrolyzed vitamin B12 |
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Authors: | Sun-Tang Chang Hsin-Cheng Hsu Hsin-Chih Huang Chen-Hao Wang He-Yun Du Li-Chyong Chen Jye-Fu Lee Kuei-Hsien Chen |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan;2. Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan;3. Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan;4. National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu 30076, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | In this study, the effect of non-precious metal catalysts in the form of pyrolyzed Vitamin B12 that is supported by carbon black on oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is examined. Pyrolysis was carried out at temperatures of 300 °C (py-B12/C-300), 500 °C (py-B12/C-500), 700 °C (py-B12/C-700) and 900 °C (py-B12/C-900) in an N2-atmosphere. The ring-rotating disk electrode technique revealed that the electron-transfer numbers of py-B12/C-300, py-B12/C-500, py-B12/C-700 and py-B12/C-900 are 3.02, 3.42, 3.90 and 3.57, respectively: py-B12/C-700 exhibits near four-electron transfer. The X-ray absorption spectra demonstrate that during the pyrolysis, as the Co oxidation state of py-B12-700 is changed from Co(III) to Co(II), the Co coordination number changes from 6 to 4, suggesting that the structure is a square-planar Co–N4 chelate. However, the Co–N4 chelate is decomposed as the pyrolysis temperature increases to 900 °C, resulting in a loss of ORR activity. The H2–O2 PEMFC that uses py-B12/C-700 provides excellent performance, substantially outperforming py-CoTMPP/C. |
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Keywords: | Oxygen reduction reaction Fuel cells Non-precious metal catalyst Vitamin B12 |
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