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Comparative Investigation on the Activity Degradation Mechanism of Pt/C and PtCo/C Electrocatalysts in PEMFCs during the Accelerate Degradation Process Characterized by an in Situ X‑ray Absorption Fine Structure
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posted on 2019-12-16, 05:29 authored by FangLing Jiang, FengJuan Zhu, Fan Yang, XiaoHui Yan, AiMing Wu, LiuXuan Luo, XiaoLin Li, JunLiang ZhangThe activity degradation mechanism of Pt/C and PtCo/C
electrocatalysts
in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells during the accelerated degradation
test (ADT) was directly investigated by the in situ X-ray absorption
fine structure (XAFS). Compared to Pt/C, the PtCo/C electrocatalyst
possesses higher Pt 5d-orbital vacancy, low level of oxygen species
chemisorption on the surface Pt atoms and shorter Pt–Pt bond
length (R), and consequently an enhanced oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) activity. During the ADT process, a drastic drop in
ORR activity after 30 000 ADT cycles can be observed in both
the electrocatalysts in spite of their different activity degradation
mechanisms. For Pt/C, XAFS results revealed that the oxidation of
Pt during the ADT process induced the structure transformation from
the partial-coverage surface PtO layer to the full-coverage surface
and partial-coverage subsurface PtO layer, resulting in the loss of
the Pt active site and consequently the decrease in the ORR activity.
For PtCo/C, the oxidation of the Co atom induced the attenuation of
strain and ligand effects, and the dissolution and segregation of
CoO caused the increase in Pt outer layer thickness during the ADT
process, mainly determined the decrease in ORR activity.
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XAFSPtCoproton-exchange membrane fuel cellssurface Pt atomsoxygen reduction reaction30 000 ADT cyclesoxygen species chemisorptionADT processAccelerate Degradation Process Characterizedpartial-coverage surface PtO layerActivity Degradation Mechanismactivity degradation mechanismsPEMFCORR activityactivity degradation mechanismPt 5 d-orbital vacancy
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