A direct borohydride fuel cell employing Prussian Blue as mediated electron-transfer hydrogen peroxide reduction catalyst

Selvarani, G and Prashant, SK and Sahu, AK and Sridhar, P and Pitchumani, S and Shukla, AK (2008) A direct borohydride fuel cell employing Prussian Blue as mediated electron-transfer hydrogen peroxide reduction catalyst. In: Journal of Power Sources, 178 (1). pp. 86-91.

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Abstract

A direct borohydride-hydrogen peroxide fuel cell employing carbon-supported Prussian Blue (PB) as mediated electron-transfer cathode catalyst is reported. While operating at 30 °C, the direct borohydride-hydrogen peroxide fuel cell employing carbon-supported PB cathode catalyst shows superior performance with the maximum output power density of 68 mW cm−2 at an operating voltage of 1.1 V compared to direct borohydride-hydrogen peroxide fuel cell employing the conventional gold-based cathode with the maximum output power density of 47 mW cm−2 at an operating voltage of 0.7 V. X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis (EDAX) suggest that anchoring of Cetyl-Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide (CTAB) as a surfactant moiety on carbon-supported PB affects the catalyst morphology. Polarization studies on direct borohydride-hydrogen peroxide fuel cell with carbon-supported CTAB-anchored PB cathode exhibit better performance with the maximum output power density of 50 mW cm−2 at an operating voltage of 1 V than the direct borohydride-hydrogen peroxide fuel cell with carbon-supported Prussian Blue without CTAB with the maximum output power density of 29 mW cm−2 at an operating voltage of 1 V.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Power Sources
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Keywords:	Direct borohydride fuel cell;Hydrogen peroxide;Prussian Blue;Mediated electron-transfer;Cetyl-trimethyl ammonium bromide.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2010 09:05
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:55
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/25860

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