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IonPEFC

Advanced catalyst electrodes from Ionic liquid modified PtNi nanowire arrays for PEFCs

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IonPEFC project word cloud

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Project "IonPEFC" data sheet

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Coordinator	THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Organization address address: Edgbaston city: BIRMINGHAM postcode: B15 2TT website: www.bham.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Project website	https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/chemical-engineering/energy-chemical/fuel-cells/people/phd/Huixin-Zhang.aspx
Total cost	195˙454 €
EC max contribution	195˙454 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-08-03 to 2019-08-02

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Organization address address: Edgbaston city: BIRMINGHAM postcode: B15 2TT website: www.bham.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (BIRMINGHAM)	coordinator	195˙454.00

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Project objective

Recent developments in PEFC research have seen a significant enhancement of catalyst activities and a reduction of cost at a reduced loading of precious metals by employing novel Pt-based extended surface area nanostructures alloyed with transitional metals, but the low stability caused by the easy dissolution of transitional metals in acidic PEFC environment, and the large difficulty to be integrated into devices due to the unconventional morphology of extended surface area nanostructures as Pt/C nanoparticle catalysts limit them mainly to pure material research, resulting in an increasing gap with real high performance devices.

IonPEFC will bring together the chemistry of nanostructure and ionic liquid (IL) synthesis with the engineering of fuel cells to develop PEFC electrodes with thin film catalyst nonstructures from PtNi nanowire arrays modified by protic ILs, targeting an improved understanding of structure-property relationships of electrodes to build high performance and robust PEFC devices. This will involve 4 research objectives: 1. To develop electrodes with thin film catalyst nanostructures from PtNi nanowire arrays based on the in-situ growing approach and to study the effect of post acid washing and annealing on the surface properties of PtNi nanowires. 2. To synthesize super hydrophobic, electrochemical and thermal stable ILs with high proton conductivity, oxygen solubility and diffusivity. The as-prepared ILs will be used to modify PtNi nanowire electrodes obtained to protect catalyst surface from Ni leaching in fuel cell operation. 3. To test in single cells the as-prepared and IL modified PtNi nanowire electrodes, and compare with conventional Pt/C electrodes. 4. To evaluate the long-term durability of the electrodes under real life-context at different European and international automotive driving cycles with the industrial partner.

It is expected that substantial performance and durability improvements will result from this research.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Min Wang, Huixin Zhang, Gnanavel Thirunavukkarasu, Ihtasham Salam, John R. Varcoe, Peter Mardle, Xiaoying Li, Shichun Mu, Shangfeng Du Ionic Liquid-Modified Microporous ZnCoNC-Based Electrocatalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells published pages: 2104-2110, ISSN: 2380-8195, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b01407	ACS Energy Letters 4/9	2020-01-27
2019	Huixin Zhang, Jinying Liang, Bangwang Xia, Yang Li, Shangfeng Du Ionic liquid modified Pt/C electrocatalysts for cathode application in proton exchange membrane fuel cells published pages: , ISSN: 2095-0179, DOI: 10.1007/s11705-019-1838-8	Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering	2020-01-27

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