Tubular palladium-based catalysts enhancing direct ethanol electrooxidation.

J Colloid Interface Sci

Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, PR China. Electronic address:

Published: March 2023

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  • DEFCs offer high power density, efficiency, and are eco-friendly, but their use is limited due to poor anode catalysts that can't effectively oxidize ethanol.
  • Tubular palladium-based catalysts were created using a method involving electro-displacement reactions with Cu nanowires, enhancing the catalyst's performance and recyclability.
  • The newly developed PdAuAgCu tubular catalysts showed exceptional performance improvements over traditional catalysts, achieving a peak mass activity of 6335 mA/mg and significantly better stability results.

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Direct ethanol fuel cell (DEFC) has the advantages of high power density, high energy conversion efficiency and environmental friendliness, but its commercialization is restricted by factors such as insufficient activity and low anti-poisoning ability of anode catalyst for incomplete oxidation of ethanol. It is of great significance to design and prepare anode catalyst with high activity and high anti-poisoning ability that can be recycled. In this work, tubular palladium-based (Pd-based) catalysts with abundant lattice defect sites were prepared by simple and reproducible electro-displacement reactions using Cu nanowires as sacrificial template. Pd is the main catalytic element which provides adsorption sites for ethanol oxidation. Ag and Cu introduced facilitates the formation of hydroxyl groups to oxidize toxicity intermediates, and changes the d-band center position of Pd, so as to adjust the adsorption and desorption of ethanol and its intermediates on the Pd surface. At the same time, Au introduced with high potential maintains the stability of the catalyst structure. The tubular structure exposes more active sites, improves the atomic utilization rate and enhances the ability of the catalyst resisting dissolution and aggregation. The series of PdAuAgCu tubular catalysts with outer layer dendrites were prepared by electro-displacement reactions using the mixture (ethylene glycol : ultra-pure water = 3 : 1) as the reaction solvent and fivefold twinned Cu nanowires as sacrificial template. The performance evaluation of ethanol electrocatalytic oxidation showed that the PdAuAgCu tubular catalysts were prepared at 120 °C and 10 mM CTAB had excellent overall performance, with a peak mass activity of 6335 mA mg, which was 9.6 times of Pd/C (JM). The residual current density after the stability test of 3000 s was 249 mA mg, which was 3.3 times of Pd/C (JM).

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