화학공학소재연구정보센터
학회 한국재료학회
학술대회 2021년 가을 (11/24 ~ 11/26, 경주 라한호텔)
권호 27권 2호
발표분야 C. 에너지 재료 분과
제목 Black Tungsten oxide Nanofiber as a Robust Support for Metal Catalysts: High Catalyst Loading for Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction
초록 Black valve metal oxides with a little oxygen vacancies have been known to be promising for various industrial applications, such as in photocatalysis, gas sensing, and rechargeable batteries for not only their considerable fractions of low-valent metal species and oxygen vacancies but also their high conductivity and stability. Herein, the nanofiber (NF) of black oxygen-deficient tungsten trioxide (WO3-x) is suggested as a functional and sturdy support for the direct growth of a nanoparticle such as platinum catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The poorly crystallized black WO3-x NFs are synthesized by electrospinning the W precursor and NFs followed by their thermic reaction at a low processing temperature (650 °C). The black WO3-x NFs has acceptable electrical conductivity owing to its amouphous structure and improved band gap. Remarkably, the oxygen-deficient surface (surface O/W: 2.44) facilitates the growth of small Pt nanoparticles, which resist aggregation, as confirmed by structural characterization and computational analysis. The Pt-loaded black WO3-x NFs outperforms the Pt-loaded white WO3-x NFs which is crystalline in the both electrochemical ORR activity and the accelerated durability test. This study shows the possibility of using oxygen-deficient metal oxides as supports for various electrocatalysts, and further increase the versatility of oxygen-deficient metal oxides.
저자 Ga-Yoon Kim1, Ki-Ro Yoon2, Kihyun Shin3, Ji-Won Jung4, Graeme Henkelman5, Won-Hee Ryu6
소속 1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, 2Sookmyung Women's Univ., 3Advanced Textile R&D Department, 4Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), 5Department of Chemistry and the Oden Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences, 6Univ. of Texas at Austin
키워드 <P>electrospinning; WO<SUB>3</SUB>; oxygen deficiency; nanofibers; ORR; catalyst supports</P>
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