Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2004, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (10): 1909.

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Promotion Effect of Heteropoly Acids Modified Electrode to Methanol Electrochemical Oxidation

LÜ Yan-Zhuo1, HAN Fei1, LIU Chang-Peng1, LI Chang-Zhi1, XING Wei1, LU Tian-Hong1, SANG Ge2   

  1. 1. Changchun Institute of Applied chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China;
    2. China Academy of Engnieering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China
  • Received:2003-09-24 Online:2004-10-24 Published:2004-10-24

Abstract: Improving the rate of anode reaction in direct methanol fuel cell(DMFC) is the key to increasing the output power of DMFC. In this article, two kinds of heteropolyacids were applied to modify the platinum electrode and their effect on the methanol electrochemical oxidation was studied. The results show that the PWA and SiWA modified platinum electrodes have a promoting effect to the methanol electrochemical oxidation compared with the non-modified platinum electrode.

Key words: Direct methanol fuel cell, Heteropolyacids, Methanol electrochemical oxidation

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