초록 |
The goal of this presentation is to introduce recent progress in electrocatalysis of small organic molecules. Of late, environmental concerns and new regulations have given a renewed stimulus to the development of fuel cell powered devices and instruments. In particular, direct liquid fuel cell research has now established a fairly detailed picture of the chemistry involved in the electrocatalytic oxidation of C1 fuels such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, formic acid and methanol on noble metal electrodes. The present work intends to contribute to our understanding of the electro-oxidation of C1 molecules. It starts with the relatively simple CO oxidation, and moves on to formic acid, formaldehyde and methanol, using both pure and modified anode materials. |