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Anode Catalytic Dependency Behavior on Ionomer Content in Direct CO Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell

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In this work, the effect of Nafion ionomer content on the structure and catalytic performance of direct CO polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell(CO-PEMFC) by using Rh-N-C single-atom catalyst as the anode catalyst layers was studied. The ionic plaque and roughness of the anode catalyst layers increase with the increase of Nafion ionomer content. Furthermore, the contact angle measurement results show that the hydrophilicity of the anode catalyst layers also increases with the increase of Nafion ionomer content. However, when the Nafion ionomer content is too low, the binding between microporous layers, catalyst layers and membrane cannot meet the requirement for either electric conductivity or mass transfer. While Nafion ionomer content increased above 30%, the content of water in anode is difficult to control. Therefore, it was found that AN 30(30% Nafion ionomer content of anode) is the best level to effectively extend the three-phase boundary and improve CO-PEMFCs performance.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.21633008, 21875243, 21673221 and U1601211), the Science and Technology Development Program of Jilin Province, China(Nos.20200201001JC, 20190201270JC and 20180101030JC).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytic Chemistry, Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Chemistry Power, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China

    Yang Li, Xian Wang, Jie Liu, Zhao Jin, Changpeng Liu, Junjie Ge & Wei Xing

  2. School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R. China

    Yang Li, Xian Wang, Jie Liu, Changpeng Liu, Junjie Ge & Wei Xing

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Li, Y., Wang, X., Liu, J. et al. Anode Catalytic Dependency Behavior on Ionomer Content in Direct CO Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ. 38, 1251–1257 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40242-022-2193-8

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