Engineering Partially Oxidized Gold via Oleylamine Modifier as a High-Performance Anode Catalyst in a Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell
Liangyao Xue,
Cheng Liu,
Jinyu Ye
et al.
Abstract:Direct borohydride fuel cell (DBFC) is considered a promising energy storage device due to its high theoretical cell voltage and energy density. For DBFC, an Au catalyst has been used as an anode for achieving an ideal eight-electron reaction. However, the poor activity of the Au catalyst for borohydride oxidation reaction (BOR) limits its largescale application because of the weak BH 4 − adsorption. We found, by density functional theory calculations, that the adsorption of BH 4 − on the oxidized Au surface i… Show more
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