The Mixture of Nanoparticles of RuO2 and Pt Supported on Ti as an Efficient Catalyst for Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cell


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An active coating, composed of a mixture of nanocrystals of RuO2 with the rutile structure and nanocrystals of metal Pt, was thermally synthetized on a titanium substrate. Cyclic voltammograms and polarization curves showed that the catalytic activity of the coating for the formic acid oxidation in an acidic solution increased with an increase in the RuO2 content, reaching the maximum value at 50 mol % RuO2. Additionally, further increase in the RuO2 content resulted in a decline of the catalytic activity. The catalytic effect was attributed to a bifunctional mechanism and an electronic effect. The bifunctional mechanism had a dominant role and was based on the fact that Ru–OH species were formed on Ru atoms of RuO2 at more negative potentials than on Pt. Those species oxidized the adsorbed COad and HCOOad—species on adjacent Pt atoms of clusters of metal Pt and thus discharge them to oxidize new HCOOH molecules.

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Miroslav Spasojević

Joint Laboratory for Advanced Materials of SASA, Section for Amorphous Systems, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Čačak, University of Kragujevac

Email: smilica84@gmail.com
Sérvia, Čačak, 32000

Lenka Ribić-Zelenović

Joint Laboratory for Advanced Materials of SASA, Section for Amorphous Systems, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Čačak, University of Kragujevac

Email: smilica84@gmail.com
Sérvia, Čačak, 32000

Milica Spasojević

Innovation Center of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade

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Sérvia, Belgrade, 11000

Tomislav Trišović

Institute of Technical Sciences SASA

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Sérvia, Belgrade, 11000

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