On the influence of the Pt to carbon ratio on the degradation of high surface area carbon supported PEM fuel cell electrocatalysts

József Spéder; Alessandro Zana; Ioannis Spanos; Jacob Judas Kain Kirkensgaard; Kell Mortensen; Matthias Arenz

doi:10.1016/j.elecom.2013.06.001

On the influence of the Pt to carbon ratio on the degradation of high surface area carbon supported PEM fuel cell electrocatalysts

József Spéder, Alessandro Zana, Ioannis Spanos, Jacob Judas Kain Kirkensgaard, Kell Mortensen, Matthias Arenz

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In the presented work we investigate the influence of the Pt to carbon ratio on the degradation behavior of Pt based proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) catalysts. In order to enable a systematic investigation, we utilized a recently developed colloidal synthesis approach for preparing catalysts with identical Pt nanoparticles (NPs), but varying Pt loadings. Two different commercially available, standard carbon supports were used, Vulcan XC72 and Ketjenblack EC-300. We evaluated the influence of the platinum loading on the electrochemical surface area (ECSA) loss by applying accelerated stress tests simulating a load-cycle in a PEMFC and start-up/shutdown conditions. Simulating load cycles, no clear influence of the Pt loading on the ECSA loss is observed, whereas the ECSA loss significantly increases with increasing Pt loading when simulating start-up/shutdown conditions.

Original language	English
Journal	Electrochemistry Communications
Volume	34
Pages (from-to)	153–156
Number of pages	4
ISSN	1388-2481
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2013.06.001
Publication status	Published - 2013

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