Platinum Electrodeposition on Conductive Diamond Powder and Its Application to Methanol Oxidation in Acidic Media
Platinum Electrodeposition on Conductive Diamond Powder and Its Application to Methanol Oxidation in Acidic Media
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DOI:
10.1149/1.2830857
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发表时间:
2008-03
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
N. Spătaru;Xintong Zhang;Tanţa Spătaru;D. Tryk;A. Fujishima
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作者:
N. Spătaru;Xintong Zhang;Tanţa Spătaru;D. Tryk;A. Fujishima
Boron-doped diamond (BDD) powder is shown to be a possible alternative to carbon as a support material for fuel cell electro-catalysts such as platinum. In this work, a Pt/BDD powder electrocatalyst was prepared via electrochemical deposition of platinum, and the electrochemical behavior was compared with that for Pt/graphite powder. Electrodes were prepared by coating polycrystalline BDD films with these electrocatalysts, with Nafion solution as a binder, and the activities for methanol oxidation were found to be comparable. The use of BDD resulted in a much higher stability of the catalyst under severe anodic conditions. Steady-state and long-time methanol oxidation polarization measurements, performed in the "floating electrode" configuration in acidic media, showed that platinum on BDD powder was less sensitive to deactivation, presumably due to CO poisoning, than was platinum on graphite powder.