Formic acid oxidation by iridium single-atom catalysts on nitrogen-doped carbon

• 来源期刊: 中国科学：化学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（9）
• 所属期刊栏目: HIGHLIGHTS
• 页码范围: 1171-1172
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The challenge of the depletion of traditional fossil fuels forces researchers to develop sustainable and highly effective energy storage and conversion technologies.Direct formic acid fuel cells (DFAFCs) exhibit great potential applications in small, lightweight and long-lasting portable power sources, due to the inherent advantages of formic acid,e.g., safer and easier to store and handle than hydrogen,faster electro-oxidation kinetics than ethanol and lower fuel crossover through the Nafion membrane than methanol [1].However, the fast deactivation and slow kinetics of the electrocatalysts seriously restrict the wide commercialization of DFAFCs [2].