Recent Advances in Anode Electrocatalysts for Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cell-II-Platinum-Based Catalysts.

Platinum-based catalysts have a long history of application in formic acid oxidation (FAO). The single metal Pt is active in FAO but expensive, scarce, and rapidly deactivates. Understanding the mechanism of FAO over Pt important for the rational design of catalysts.

Recent Advances in Anode Electrocatalysts for Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells - Part I - Fundamentals and Pd Based Catalysts.

Direct formic acid fuel cells (DFAFCs) have gained immense importance as a source of clean energy for portable electronic devices. It outperforms other fuel cells in several key operational and safety parameters. However, slow kinetics of the formic acid oxidation at the anode remains the main obstacle in achieving a high power output in DFAFCs.

Effect of ammonia and water molecule on OH + CHOH reaction under tropospheric condition.

The rate coefficients for OH + CHOH and OH + CHOH (+ X) (X = NH, HO) reactions were calculated using microcanonical, and canonical variational transition state theory (CVT) between 200 and 400 K based on potential energy surface constructed using CCSD(T)//M06-2X/6-311++G(3df,3pd). The results show that OH + CHOH is dominated by the hydrogen atoms abstraction from CH position in both free and ammonia/water catalyzed ones. This result is in consistent with previous experimental and theoretical studies.

The Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction on thin film PdAu alloy surfaces.

A high throughput synthetic and screening methodology has been applied to the study of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) and Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction (HOR) activities of PdAu thin film alloy surfaces. A compositional gradient method has been used to produce non-equilibrium surfaces of PdAu solid solution alloys. XPS shows surface compositions for these un-annealed alloys to be the same as the bulk, in contrast to the observed and expected behaviour of annealed alloys.