• 文献标题:   Electrochemical properties of Pt/graphene intercalated by carbon black and its application in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHO SH, YANG HN, LEE DC, PARK SH, KIM WJ
  • 作者关键词:   graphene single nanosheet, intercalation, thermal exfoliation, polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell, cell performance, methanol oxidation
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
  • ISSN:   0378-7753
  • 通讯作者地址:   Konkuk Univ
  • 被引频次:   31
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.jpowsour.2012.10.040
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

Graphene single nanosheet (GNS) is synthesized from graphite by chemical oxidation and thermal exfoliation at 1000 degrees C and confirmed by X-ray diffraction analysis. Scanning electron and transmission electron microscope images clearly show the lateral expansion of graphite sheet and uniform dispersion of Pt nanoparticles on GNS. Fourier transform infrared and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analyses are conducted for surface properties of GNS such as oxygenated functional groups. Cyclic voltammetric analysis shows that electrochemical active surface areas (ECSAs) for Pt/GNS, commercial Pt/Vulcan XC-72 carbon black and Pt-incorporated onto commercial carbon black (Pt/CB) prepared in the laboratory are 33.1 m(2) g(-1), 23.5 m(2) g(-1) and 22.5 m(2) g(-1), respectively. Because of significant restacking of Pt/GNS sheets, carbon black (CB) with different content is intercalated between Pt/GNS as a spacer. The ECSAs of Pt/GNS, Pt/GNS/CB20, Pt/GNS/CB30 and Pt/GNS/C840 are evaluated to be 31.5 m(2) g(-1), 28.6 m(2) g(-1), 38.8 m(2) g(-1) and 30.4 m(2) g(-1), respectively. The cell performance highly depends on CB content and PtiGNS/CB with 30 wt.% of CB content shows the best cell performance of 400 mA cm(-2). (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.