- Title
- Platinum nanoparticles supported on carbon nanodots as anode catalysts for direct alcohol fuel cells
- Creator
- Gwebu, Sandile Surprise, Nomngongo, Philiswa Nosizo, Mashazi, Philani Nkosinathi, Maxakato, Nobanathi Wendy, Nyokong, Tebello
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/233118
- Identifier
- vital:50058
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.20964/2017.07.09"
- Description
- Carbon nanodots (CNDs) were successfully synthesized employing a cheap and green method using oats as a starting material. The Pt/CNDs electrocatalyst was synthesized using carbon nanodots as a reductant and support material without adjusting the pH of the solution. The synthesized materials were characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller Nitrogen adsorption (BET), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES). The FTIR results proved that the synthesized carbon nanodots contain carboxylic acid functional groups which facilitate the attachment of Pt nanoparticles. The BET surface area for carbon nanodots was found to be 312.5 m2 g -1 two times higher than that of commercial carbon. XPS results revealed the composition of the materials and the oxidation states of Pt in Pt/CNDs electrocatalyst. TEM images proved that the materials were of the nanoscale. XRD peaks proved that the carbon nanodots were amorphous and Pt (111) was present in the Pt/CNDs electrocatalyst. ICPOES determined the platinum concentration in Pt/CNDs electrocatalyst to be 8.12%. The electrochemical oxidation of methanol and ethanol were studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and chronoamperometry (CA). Cyclic voltammetry results showed that the Pt/CNDs electrocatalyst prepared by this method exhibit superior performance for methanol and ethanol electro-oxidation at room temperature.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (14 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- ESG
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Journal of Electrochem Sci, Gwebu, S.S., Nomngongo, P.N., Mashazi, P.N., Nyokong, T. and Maxakato, N.W., 2017. Platinum nanoparticles supported on carbon nanodots as anode catalysts for direct alcohol fuel cells. Int. J. Electrochem. Sci, 12(7), pp.6365-6378, International Journal of Electrochem Sci volume 12 number 7 p. 6365 2017 1452-3981
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- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License (Attribution 4.0 International)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Open Access
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Mashazi, Philani N (Associate Prof)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology
Nyokong, Tebello (Distinguished Professor)
RU Department of Chemistry
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