• 文献标题:   Graphene-carbon nanotube composite aerogel with Ru@Pt nanoparticle as a porous electrode for direct methanol microfluidic fuel cell
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KWOK YH, WANG YF, TSANG ACH, LEUNG DYC
  • 作者关键词:   flowthrough microfluidic fuel cell, ruthenium platinum coreshell nanoparticle, graphene aerogel, porous electrode
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED ENERGY
  • ISSN:   0306-2619 EI 1872-9118
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Hong Kong
  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.02.141
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

A Ru@Pt core-shell nanoparticles decorated graphene-carbon nanotube composite was produced as a porous anode for a flow-through direct methanol microfluidic fuel cell (MFC). The composite was characterized by TEM and SEM, which reveals that the size of the nanoparticles is less than 5 nm and the pore size of the porous electrode is less than 10 Am. TEM image showed that the nanoparticles were evenly distributed in the carbon substrate without agglomeration. The carbon nanotubes (CNT) increased the composite conductivity by connecting the graphene oxide nanosheets together. An orthogonal flow air-breathing microfluidic fuel cell combining the advantages of co-flow and counter flow MFC was designed to compare the electrode performances and a maximum specific power of 13.1 mW/mg catalyst was achieved with 1 M methanol in 1 M KOH as supporting electrolyte, which outperformed most others' works in the literature.