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The development of bi-functional, non-precious and highly active catalyst has been a key challenge for the commercial application of alkaline fuel cells. In this work, fullerene iron oxide composite, derived from mineral water waste bottles, was used as a catalyst for electrodes in an alkaline fuel cell instead of platinum. The results demonstrate that an oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) was established to proceed through the efficacious four-electron reduction path, and all the reaction steps were found to be spontaneous. Interestingly, fullerene iron oxide composite is a promising electrocatalyst with bi-functional activity for ORR and oxygen evolution reaction in addition to achieving good cycling stability compared to platinum in the alkaline electrolyte.
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The author acknowledges the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Faisal University for the financial support under Nasher Track, Saudi Arabia (Grant No. 186166). The authors from the City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications, Alexandria, Egypt acknowledge the financial support for this work with SRTA City 2017–2022 fund plan.
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Elessawy, N.A., Elnouby, M., Gouda, M. et al. Simple Self-assembly Synthesis for Cost-Effective Alkaline Fuel Cell Bi-functional Electrocatalyst Synthesized from Polyethylene Terephthalate Waste Bottles. J. Electron. Mater. 49, 1009–1016 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-019-07684-8
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