1 Introduction.Carbon materials are ideal catalyst supports for functional metal components due to their appropriate physicochemical characteristics,such as high surface areas,tunable pore structures,variable morpholo...1 Introduction.Carbon materials are ideal catalyst supports for functional metal components due to their appropriate physicochemical characteristics,such as high surface areas,tunable pore structures,variable morphologies and versatile surface properties based on chemical modifications,low cost and facile preparations from diverse precursors[1,2].展开更多
The impeded mass transfer rate by on-site-generated gas bubbles at both cathode and anode dramatically reduces the energy conversion efficiency of the proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer(PEMWE).Herein,we repor...The impeded mass transfer rate by on-site-generated gas bubbles at both cathode and anode dramatically reduces the energy conversion efficiency of the proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer(PEMWE).Herein,we report a surfactant-assistant method to accelerate the nano/micro-bubble detachment and the mass transfer rate by reducing the surface tension,resulting in an increase in overall efficiency.Four kinds of surfactants are studied in this work.Only potassium perfluorobutyl sulfonate(PPFBS),which has the structural similarity to Nafion,shows a significant promotion of activity and stability for both hygrogen evolution reaction(HER)and oxygen evolution reaction(OER)in the acidic medium at the high current density region.The HER overpotential at 0.1 A·cm−2 decreased 22%,and the current density at−0.4 V increased 31%by adding PPFBS.The promotion of overall efficiency by PPFBS on a homemade PEMWE was also proven.The reduced surface tension and electrostatic repulsion were the probable origins of the accelerated bubble detachment.展开更多
基金supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2021YFB4000205)the financial support from the Tsinghua University Dushi Program(20231080010)the State Key Laboratory of Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering。
文摘1 Introduction.Carbon materials are ideal catalyst supports for functional metal components due to their appropriate physicochemical characteristics,such as high surface areas,tunable pore structures,variable morphologies and versatile surface properties based on chemical modifications,low cost and facile preparations from diverse precursors[1,2].
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21971008 and 22101016)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(buctrc201916,buctrc201823)China Petroleum&Chemical Corporation(SINOPEC,120052-2).
文摘The impeded mass transfer rate by on-site-generated gas bubbles at both cathode and anode dramatically reduces the energy conversion efficiency of the proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer(PEMWE).Herein,we report a surfactant-assistant method to accelerate the nano/micro-bubble detachment and the mass transfer rate by reducing the surface tension,resulting in an increase in overall efficiency.Four kinds of surfactants are studied in this work.Only potassium perfluorobutyl sulfonate(PPFBS),which has the structural similarity to Nafion,shows a significant promotion of activity and stability for both hygrogen evolution reaction(HER)and oxygen evolution reaction(OER)in the acidic medium at the high current density region.The HER overpotential at 0.1 A·cm−2 decreased 22%,and the current density at−0.4 V increased 31%by adding PPFBS.The promotion of overall efficiency by PPFBS on a homemade PEMWE was also proven.The reduced surface tension and electrostatic repulsion were the probable origins of the accelerated bubble detachment.
