Pt-CeO2 Catalysts for Fuel Cell Applications: From Surface Science to Electrochemistry

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409547-2.14155-1" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409547-2.14155-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409547-2.14155-1" target="_blank" >10.1016/B978-0-12-409547-2.14155-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pt-CeO2 Catalysts for Fuel Cell Applications: From Surface Science to Electrochemistry

Original language description

Nanostructured Pt-CeO2 films with low Pt loading show high activity and stability as anode catalysts in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. Under electrochemical conditions, the noble metal in the catalyst films can be reversibly converted between two chemical states, an atomically dispersed Pt2 + species and subnanometer Pt particles. The nature of these states and the mechanism of their interconversion have been investigated combining surface science and electrochemical experiments. The local structure of the Pt2 + species, their stability, and reactivity were studied by means of synchrotron radiation photoelectron spectroscopy and resonant photoemission spectroscopy under ultrahigh vacuum conditions in combination with density functional modeling. We employed surface science-based model systems of different complexity to probe the reactivity of the atomically dispersed Pt2 + species in the absence of other species such as Pt4 +, metallic Pt, or oxygen vacancies. It was found that the conversion of Pt2 + to subnanometer Pt particles is triggered by a redox coupling with Ce3 + centers generated through the formation of oxygen vacancies or by charge transfer between the metal and the support. These findings characterize the Pt-CeO2 material as a structurally highly dynamic catalyst which attains its high stability from the ability to adapt to the changes in the operation conditions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering

ISBN

978-0-12-809894-3

Number of pages of the result

13

Pages from-to

189-201

Number of pages of the book

5560

Publisher name

Elsevier

Place of publication

Neuveden

UT code for WoS chapter

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