NEW ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR THE ACID METHANOL FUEL CELL. FINAL REPORT

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Commission of the European Communities energy NEW ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR THE ACID METHANOL FUEL CELL Blow-up from microfiche original Commission of the European Communities energy NEW ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR THE ACID METHANOL FUEL CELL W. VIELSTICH Institut für physikalische Chemie der Universität Bonn Wegelerstr. 12 D-5300 Bonn Contract No. EN3E-0072D (Β) FINAL REPORT Research financed by the Commission of the European Communities within the frame of the Non-Nuclear Energy R+D Programme - ENERGY CONSERVATION -Directorate-General Science, Research and Development 1990 EUR 12877 EN Published by the COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Directorate-General Telecommunications, Information Industrie· and Innovation L-2920 LUXEMBOURG LEGAL NOTICE Neither the Commission of the European Communities nor any person acting on behalf of then is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information Catalogue number: CD-NA-12877-EN-C © ECSC — EEC — EAEC, Brussels - Luxembourg, 1990 SUMMARY A large number of alloys of non-noble metals with platinum was studied as methanol catalyst, using cyclic voltammetry and current-time transients. One Pt-ternary system was discovered to be more active than any other catalytic material studied up to now. At a potential of 300 mV vs. RHE and ambient tempera­ture a current density of 50 to 70 mA/cm^ was obtained.

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-RESEARCH-AND-INNOVATION
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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