Abstract
Platinum group metal-free electrocatalysts are an important class of materials for the sustainable energy economy and significant effort has been made toward developing platinum group metal-free catalysts to replace their costly Pt counterparts in fuel cell electric vehicles. The progress made in activity over the last decade is reviewed, along with synthesis strategies for more controlled active site formation and performance gains achieved through electrode engineering. The increased focus on durability, the growing understanding of degradation mechanisms, and the need for standard performance and accelerated stress test protocols are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 100627 |
| Journal | Current Opinion in Electrochemistry |
| Volume | 25 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2021 |
Funding
This work was authored in part by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, the manager and operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 and by Triad National Security, LLC, Operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract Number DE-89233218CNA000001. Argonne National Laboratory is managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by the University of Chicago Argonne, LLC, also under contract DE-AC-02-06CH11357. Research performed as part of the Electrocatalysis Consortium (ElectroCat), established as part of the Energy Materials Network, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO). The authors wish to thank Dimitrios Papageorgopoulos and Dave Peterson at DOE for supporting this work. Qingying Jia from Northeastern University (Boston MA) is also acknowledged for his input for the literature data shown in Table 1. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government. This work was authored in part by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, the manager and operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 and by Triad National Security, LLC, Operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract Number DE-89233218CNA000001. Argonne National Laboratory is managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by the University of Chicago Argonne, LLC, also under contract DE-AC-02-06CH11357. Research performed as part of the Electrocatalysis Consortium (ElectroCat), established as part of the Energy Materials Network, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy , Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy , Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO). The authors wish to thank Dimitrios Papageorgopoulos and Dave Peterson at DOE for supporting this work. Qingying Jia from Northeastern University (Boston MA) is also acknowledged for his input for the literature data shown in Table 1 . The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Electrocatalysis Consortium | |
| University of Chicago Argonne, LLC | DE-AC-02-06CH11357 |
| U.S. Department of Energy | DE-AC36-08GO28308 |
| Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | |
| Argonne National Laboratory | |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory | |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | DE-89233218CNA000001 |
| Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office | |
| Northeastern University |
Keywords
- Current status
- Durability
- Electrode development
- Performance
- Platinum group metal-free electrocatalysts
- Synthesis
