Recent advances in nanostructured vanadium oxides and composites for energy conversion

M Liu, B Su, Y Tang, X Jiang… - Advanced Energy Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Vanadium oxides are known for their multioxidation states and diverse crystalline structures.
Owing to their excellent interactions with molecules or ions, outstanding catalytic activities …

Carbon-neutral sustainable energy technology: Direct ethanol fuel cells

L An, TS Zhao, YS Li - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Ethanol is a sustainable, carbon-neutral transportation fuel. It is an ideal fuel source for
direct oxidation fuel cells for portable and mobile applications, as it offers multiple …

Strong Oxide‐Support Interaction over IrO2/V2O5 for Efficient pH‐Universal Water Splitting

X Zheng, M Qin, S Ma, Y Chen, H Ning… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Constructing strong oxide‐support interaction (SOSI) is compelling for modulating the atomic
configurations and electronic structures of supported catalysts. Herein, ultrafine iridium oxide …

Recent progress in electrocatalysts and electrodes for portable fuel cells

Ş Neaţu, F Neaţu, IM Chirica, I Borbáth… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fuel cells are devices that transform efficiently the chemical energy of hydrogen or another
fuel into clean electricity. The fuel cell technology is attractive for its high-energy efficiency …

PdAg/CNT catalyzed alcohol oxidation reaction for high-performance anion exchange membrane direct alcohol fuel cell (alcohol= methanol, ethanol, ethylene glycol …

J Qi, N Benipal, C Liang, W Li - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstracts PdAg supported on carbon nanotubes (PdAg/CNT) with an average particle size of
2.7 nm is prepared by an aqueous phase reduction method for alcohol oxidation reaction in …

PEMFCs and AEMFCs directly fed with ethanol: a current status comparative review

A Brouzgou, A Podias, P Tsiakaras - Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 2013 - Springer
The last decade's research on the performance of proton-exchange membrane direct
ethanol fuel cells (PEM-DEFCs) and anion exchange membrane direct ethanol fuel cells …

Geometrically controlled nanoporous PdAu bimetallic catalysts with tunable Pd/Au ratio for direct ethanol fuel cells

LY Chen, N Chen, Y Hou, ZC Wang, SH Lv… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We report nanoporous Pd100–x Au x (x= 0, 25, 50, 75, 100; np-PdAu) bimetallic catalysts
fabricated by electrochemically dealloying isomorphous Pd20–y Au y Ni80 (y= 0, 5, 15, 20) …

Ethanol electrooxidation reaction in alkaline media for direct ethanol fuel cells

EA Monyoncho, TK Woo, EA Baranova - 2018 - books.rsc.org
Fuel cell technology dates back to 1839 when Grove demonstrated that chemical energy
from hydrogen and oxygen can be converted directly into electrical energy with high …

Energy efficient role of Ni/NiO in PdNi nano catalyst used in alkaline DEFC

A Dutta, J Datta - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The present investigation is based on a study of electro-oxidation of ethanol in alkaline
medium over the carbon supported PdxNiy catalyst formulations synthesized by …

Green synthesis of graphene–PtPd alloy nanoparticles with high electrocatalytic performance for ethanol oxidation

X Chen, Z Cai, X Chen, M Oyama - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A facile and green method is described for the fabrication of PtPd alloy nanoparticles on
graphene nanosheets (PtPdNPs/GNs). The keys of the synthesis strategy were to employ a …