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Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells: A Comparative Review of Acidic and Alkaline Systems
In the last 20 years, direct alcohol fuel cells (DAFCs) have been the subject of tremendous research efforts for the potential application as...
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Performance of Pd@FeCo Catalyst in Anion Exchange Membrane Alcohol Fuel Cells
The performances of the core-shell nano-electrocatalysts (FeCo@Fe@Pd/CNT-OH and their monometallic Pd counterparts (Pd/CNT-OH) on carbon nanotubes in...
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Comprehensive investigation on sodium hypochlorite as oxidant in half cell and direct sodium borohydride fuel cell (DSBFC) for low-cost electrical power generation
The electrochemical reduction of sodium hypochlorite in alkaline medium was thoroughly studied on commercial cathode Pt(40 wt.%)/C HSA electrocatalyst...
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Recent Advance in Electrocatalytic Water Splitting for Hydrogen Production by Layered Double Hydroxides
Collecting green hydrogen (H 2 ) from water splitting driven by renewable energy is a new competition to implement the construction of H 2 energy...
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Synthesis and Characterization of AgPd Bimetallic Nanoparticles as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
The synthesis of AgPd bimetallic nanoparticles was carried out by a simple polyol method in order to obtain an improved control of the morphology and...
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Alkaline Ethanol Oxidation Reaction on Carbon Supported Ternary PdNiBi Nanocatalyst using Modified Instant Reduction Synthesis Method
Direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFC) still lack active and efficient electrocatalysts for the alkaline ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR). In this work, a...
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Introduction: Low-Temperature Fuel Cells
This chapter describes the reactions occurring in low-temperature fuel cells, fuelled with from the most common H2, to several organic molecules. The...
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Overview of Direct Liquid Oxidation Fuel Cells and its Application as Micro-Fuel Cells
Direct liquid fuel cells (DLFCs) are a special type of FCs that generate power output through the electro-oxidation of liquid fuels easier to handle...
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Enhanced activity of carbon-supported PdCo electrocatalysts toward electrooxidation of ethanol in alkaline electrolytes
Carbon-supported Pd and PdCo (1: 2, 1: 1, 2: 1 and 3: 1) catalysts were synthesized by chemical reduction with NaBH 4 . Their electrochemical...
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Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells: Nanostructured Materials for the Electrooxidation of Alcohols in Alkaline Media
The exploitation of biomass derived alcohols in direct fuel cells is an attractive and simple way to transform their chemical energy into electrical...
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Membranes for Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells
This chapter is devoted to summarize and discuss the main properties of ionomeric membranes used in direct alcohol PEM fuel cells. Although Nafion is...
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Synthesis and characterization of Pd-La(OH)3/C electrocatalyst for direct ethanol fuel cell
The composite nanomaterial of Pd-La(OH) 3 /C was successfully synthesized via intermittent microwave heating–glycol reduction method and characterized...
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Introduction to Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells
Fuel cells are strongly linked to renewable energies, particularly to the so-called “Hydrogen Economy”. For decades the development of fuel cells...
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PEMFCs and AEMFCs directly fed with ethanol: a current status comparative review
The last decade’s research on the performance of proton-exchange membrane direct ethanol fuel cells (PEM-DEFCs) and anion exchange membrane direct...
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Efficient utilization of anion exchange composites using silica filler for low temperature alkaline membrane fuel cells
Alkaline membrane fuel cells (AMFCs) are advantageous over polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) in terms of electrode reaction kinetics...
