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Abdel-Aty MM, Gomaa HE, Abdu HM, Almasri RA, Irfan OM, Barakat NAM. Molybdenum Carbide/Ni Nanoparticles Embedded into Carbon Nanofibers as an Effective Non-Precious Catalyst for Green Hydrogen Production from Methanol Electrooxidation. Polymers (Basel) 2023; 15:polym15112430. [PMID: 37299229 DOI: 10.3390/polym15112430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2023] [Revised: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023] Open
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Molybdenum carbide co-catalyst and carbon nanofiber matrix are suggested to improve the nickel activity toward methanol electrooxidation process. The proposed electrocatalyst has been synthesized by calcination electrospun nanofiber mats composed of molybdenum chloride, nickel acetate, and poly (vinyl alcohol) under vacuum at elevated temperatures. The fabricated catalyst has been characterized using XRD, SEM, and TEM analysis. The electrochemical measurements demonstrated that the fabricated composite acquired specific activity for methanol electrooxidation when molybdenum content and calcination temperature were tuned. In terms of the current density, the highest performance is attributed to the nanofibers obtained from electrospun solution having 5% molybdenum precursor compared to nickel acetate as a current density of 107 mA/cm2 was generated. The process operating parameters have been optimized and expressed mathematically using the Taguchi robust design method. Experimental design has been employed in investigating the key operating parameters of methanol electrooxidation reaction to obtain the highest oxidation current density peak. The main effective operating parameters of the methanol oxidation reaction are Mo content in the electrocatalyst, methanol concentration, and reaction temperature. Employing Taguchi's robust design helped to capture the optimum conditions yielding the maximum current density. The calculations revealed that the optimum parameters are as follows: Mo content, 5 wt.%; methanol concentration, 2.65 M; and reaction temperature, 50 °C. A mathematical model has been statistically derived to describe the experimental data adequately with an R2 value of 0. 979. The optimization process indicated that the maximum current density can be identified statistically at 5% Mo, 2.0 M methanol concentration, and 45 °C operating temperature.
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- Marwa M Abdel-Aty
- Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia 61519, Egypt
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science and Humanities, Ad-Dawadmi, Shaqra University, Sahqra 11911, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Nuclear Safety Engineering, Nuclear Installations Safety Division, Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo 11765, Egypt
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- Production Engineering & Design Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minya 61516, Egypt
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Production Engineering, Beni Suef University, Beni Suef 62521, Egypt
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- Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia 61519, Egypt
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Xie M, Zhang B, Jin Z, Li P, Yu G. Atomically Reconstructed Palladium Metallene by Intercalation-Induced Lattice Expansion and Amorphization for Highly Efficient Electrocatalysis. ACS NANO 2022; 16:13715-13727. [PMID: 35947035 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c05190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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As an emerging class of materials with distinctive physicochemical properties, metallenes are deemed as efficient catalysts for energy-related electrocatalytic reactions. Engineering the lattice strain, electronic structure, crystallinity, and even surface porosity of metallene provides a great opportunity to further enhance its catalytic performance. Herein, we rationally developed a reconstruction strategy of Pd metallenes at atomic scale to generate a series of nonmetallic atom-intercalated Pd metallenes (M-Pdene, M = H, N, C) with lattice expansion and S-doped Pd metallene (S-Pdene) with an amorphous structure. Catalytic performance evaluation demonstrated that N-Pdene exhibited the highest mass activities of 7.96 A mg-1, which was 10.6 and 8.5 time greater than those of commercial Pd/C and Pt/C, respectively, for methanol oxidation reaction (MOR). Density functional theory calculations suggested that the well-controlled lattice tensile strain as well as the strong p-d hybridization interaction between N and Pd resulted in enhanced OH adsorption and weakened CO adsorption for efficient MOR catalysis on N-Pdene. When tested as hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts, the amorphous S-Pdene delivered superior activity and durability relative to the crystalline counterparts because of the disordered Pd surface with a further elongated bond length and a downshifted d-band center. This work provides an effective strategy for atomic engineering of metallene nanomaterials with high performance as electrocatalysts.
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- Minghao Xie
- Materials Science and Engineering Program and Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program and Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, P.R. China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, P.R. China
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program and Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Fan F, Chen DH, Yang L, Qi J, Fan Y, Wang Y, Chen W. PtCuFe alloy nanochains: Synthesis and composition-performance relationship in methanol oxidation and hydrogen evolution reactions. J Colloid Interface Sci 2022; 628:153-161. [PMID: 35987154 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.08.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The controllable synthesis of 1-dimensional (1D) multi-metal Pt-based alloys, with enhanced electro-chemical properties remains a challenge, despite the wide application of Pt-based catalysts in fuel cells and in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, we fabricate PtCuFe alloy nanochains (NCs) that have a tunable composition by flexibly adjusting the molar ratios of the metal precursors. It was found that Cu2+ is key in the formation of 1D NCs, as confirmed by transmission electron microscopy characterizations. In addition, the alloyed Fe can further increase the content of the metallic state of Cu in the PtCuFe NCs. The as-prepared PtCuFe NCs exhibited higher catalytic activity and stability than those of the Pt nanoparticles (NPs), PtFe NPs, and PtCu NCs, for the methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) and HER. Additionally, the composition-performance relationship of PtCuxFey NCs toward the MOR and HER were investigated. The hybrid density functional theory calculation and analysis showed that the 1D PtCuFe NCs have a lower lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) than those of the 2- and 3-dimensional PtCuFe, verifying that the 1D PtCuFe NCs exhibit the highest activity for the MOR. This work has established a new method for the controllable synthesis of multi-metal Pt-based NCs/alloy catalysts and their subsequent applications in other electro-catalytic reactions.
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- Fangfang Fan
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China.
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- Department of Chemistry and Forensic Science, Albany State University, Albany, GA 31705, USA.
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China.
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Abdelrazek GM, EL-Deeb MM, Farghali AA, Pérez-Cadenas AF, Abdelwahab A. Design of Self-Supported Flexible Nanostars MFe-LDH@ Carbon Xerogel-Modified Electrode for Methanol Oxidation. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 14:5271. [PMID: 34576486 PMCID: PMC8465867 DOI: 10.3390/ma14185271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) have emerged as promising electrodes materials for the methanol oxidation reaction. Here, we report on the preparation of different LDHs with the hydrothermal process. The effect of the divalent cation (i.e., Ni, Co, and Zn) on the electrochemical performance of methanol oxidation was investigated. Moreover, nanocomposites of LDHs and carbon xerogels (CX) supported on nickel foam (NF) substrate were prepared to investigate the role of carbon xerogel. The results show that NiFe-LDH/CX/NF is an efficient electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation with a current density that reaches 400 mA·m-2 compared to 250 and 90 mA·cm-2 for NiFe-LDH/NF and NF, respectively. In addition, all LDH/CX/NF nanocomposites show excellent stability for methanol oxidation. A clear relationship is observed between the electrodes crystallite size and their activity to methanol oxidation. The smaller the crystallite size, the higher the current density delivered. Additionally, the presence of carbon xerogel in the nanocomposites offer 3D interconnected micro/mesopores, which facilitate both mass and electron transport.
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- Ghada M. Abdelrazek
- Materials Science and Nanotechnology Department, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62511, Egypt; (G.M.A.); (A.A.F.); (A.A.)
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Engineering, Basic Science, Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST), 6th of October City, Giza 12566, Egypt
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- Applied Electrochemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62511, Egypt
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- Materials Science and Nanotechnology Department, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62511, Egypt; (G.M.A.); (A.A.F.); (A.A.)
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- Carbon Materials Research Group, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
- Unit of Excellence in Chemistry Applied to Biomedicine and the Environment, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Materials Science and Nanotechnology Department, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62511, Egypt; (G.M.A.); (A.A.F.); (A.A.)
- Faculty of Science, Galala University, Sokhna, Suez 43511, Egypt
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Yang P, Zhou Z, Zheng T, Gu C, Gong X, Zhang Y, Xie Y, Yang N, Fei J. A novel strategy to synthesize Pt/CNTs nanocatalyst with highly improved activity for methanol electrooxidation. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Li J, Shao T, Meng B, He S, Zhang Q, Zhang D, Zhou X. Advanced catalytic performance for the electro-oxidation of methanol enabled by channel-rich Au@GQDs@Pt3.5Pb nano-pompons. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Fang Z, Chen W. Recent advances in formic acid electro-oxidation: from the fundamental mechanism to electrocatalysts. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2021; 3:94-105. [PMID: 36131880 PMCID: PMC9419285 DOI: 10.1039/d0na00803f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Direct formic acid fuel cells have attracted significant attention because of their low fuel crossover, high safety, and high theoretical power density among all the proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. Much effort has been devoted to the study of formic acid oxidation, including the reaction processes and electrocatalysts. However, as a model reaction, the anodic electro-oxidation process of formic acid is still not very clear, especially regarding the confirmation of the intermediates, which is not helpful for the design and synthesis of high-performance electrocatalysts for formic acid oxidation or conducive to understanding the reaction mechanisms of other small fuel molecules. Herein, we briefly review the recent advances in investigating the mechanism of formic acid electro-oxidation and the basic design concepts of formic acid oxidation electrocatalysts. Rather than an exhaustive overview of all aspects of this topic, this mini-review mainly outlines the progress of this field in recent years.
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- Zhongying Fang
- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun 130022 Jilin China
- University of Science and Technology of China Hefei 230029 Anhui China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun 130022 Jilin China
- University of Science and Technology of China Hefei 230029 Anhui China
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Liu W, Wang P, Wang Z. PtPdCu cubic nanoframes as electrocatalysts for methanol oxidation reaction. CrystEngComm 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1ce00710f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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PtPdCu cubic nanoframes with unique open architecture exhibit excellent electrocatalytic performances toward methanol electrooxidation.
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- Wen Liu
- Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, P. R. China
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