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Preparation and Characterization of Nano Structured Pt−MOx/C for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acidic Medium

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Electrochemistry

Abstract

Pt-MOx/C (M = Ti, Ce or Zr) electrocatalysts was prepared for the purpose of developing a cheap and efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) using a mixture of ethylene glycol and sodium borohydride (EG + NaBH4) as a reducing agent. Pt/C was studied for estimation of metal oxides effect.Pt-CeO2/C-1 was prepared through single reducing agent ethylene glycol for studying the effect of changing the reducing agent on the activity of electrocatalysts toward ORR and for studying ORR kinetics. The electrocatalytic activity of the prepared electrocatalysts towards (ORR) was evaluated by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) on a rotating disc electrode (RDE). Pt-ZrO2 /C shows the best activity towards ORR among the studied electrocatalysts; the oxygen reduction current density for it is about 5 times; (5.84 mAcm-2) as that of Pt/C (1.26 mAcm-2). Pt-CeO2/C showed better ORR activity (2.24 mAcm-2) than Pt-CeO2/C-1(1.58 mAcm-2) indicating the great effect of changing the reducing agent not only on the electrocatalyst behavior towards ORR but also its particle size and the metal content of the resultant electrocatalysts. Oxygen reduction mechanism for Pt-CeO2/C and Pt-CeO2/C-1 was evaluated using through Koutecky-Levich, they showed first-order kinetics with ORR not controlled solely by diffusion. XRD, EDX and TEM analyses were used to characterize the prepared electrocatalyst.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2017.753.1022

Keywords

oxygen reduction reaction, platinum nanoparticles, Metal Oxides, rotating disk electrode

Authors

First Name

Kamel

Last Name

El-Khatib

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Affiliation

Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering Division, National Research Center

Email

kamelced@hotmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-0608-7464

First Name

Amani

Last Name

Fetohi

MiddleName

Ebaid

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering Department, National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

amaniebaid@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

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First Name

Rabab

Last Name

Amin

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering Department, National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

roba_nrc@yahoo.com

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-

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First Name

Randa

Last Name

Farag

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza

Email

rangaeg311@yahoo.com

City

Giza

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-

Volume

60

Article Issue

3

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567

Issue Date

2017-06-01

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2017-03-13

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2017-06-01

Page Start

379

Page End

393

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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Preparation and Characterization of Nano Structured Pt−MOx/C for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acidic Medium

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22 Jan 2023