Issue 4, 2018

Benchmarking high surface area electrocatalysts in a gas diffusion electrode: measurement of oxygen reduction activities under realistic conditions

Abstract

In this work, we introduce the application of gas diffusion electrodes (GDE) for benchmarking the electrocatalytic performance of high surface area fuel cell catalysts. It is demonstrated that GDEs offer several inherent advantages over the state-of-the-art technique, i.e. thin film rotating disk electrode (TF-RDE) measurements for fast fuel cell catalyst evaluation. The most critical advantage is reactant mass transport. While in RDE measurements the reactant mass transport is severely limited by the gas solubility of the reactant in the electrolyte, GDEs enable reactant transport rates similar to technical fuel cell devices. Hence, in contrast to TF-RDE measurements, performance data obtained from GDE measurements can be directly compared to membrane electrode assembly (MEA) tests. Therefore, the application of GDEs for the testing of fuel cell catalysts closes the gap between catalyst research in academia and real applications.

Graphical abstract: Benchmarking high surface area electrocatalysts in a gas diffusion electrode: measurement of oxygen reduction activities under realistic conditions

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 jan 2018
Accepted
06 mar 2018
First published
07 mar 2018

Energy Environ. Sci., 2018,11, 988-994

Benchmarking high surface area electrocatalysts in a gas diffusion electrode: measurement of oxygen reduction activities under realistic conditions

M. Inaba, A. W. Jensen, G. W. Sievers, M. Escudero-Escribano, A. Zana and M. Arenz, Energy Environ. Sci., 2018, 11, 988 DOI: 10.1039/C8EE00019K

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