Highly durable platinum nanoparticles on carbon derived from pitch-based carbon fibers for oxygen reduction reaction

Gil-Seong Kang; Cheol-Ho Lee; Youn-Ki Lee; Geun Seok Chai; Doh C. Lee; Sungho Lee; Han-Ik Joh

Macromolecular Research, Vol.25, No.12, 1158-1162, December, 2017

DOI10.1007/s13233-017-5159-9 Export Citation

Highly durable platinum nanoparticles on carbon derived from pitch-based carbon fibers for oxygen reduction reaction

Gil-Seong Kang^{1, 2}, Cheol-Ho Lee^{1, 2}, Youn-Ki Lee¹, Geun Seok Chai³, Doh C. Lee², Sungho Lee^{1, 4, †}, and Han-Ik Joh^{5, †}

¹Carbon Composite Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), 92 Chudong-ro, Bongdong-eup, Wanju-gun, Jeonbuk 55324, Korea
²Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Korea
³Radiation Technology eXcellence (RTX), 167-6 Techno 2-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34025, Korea
⁴Department of Nano Material Engineering, Korea University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Korea
⁵Department of Energy Engineering, Konkuk University, 120 Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Korea

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Highly durable platinum (Pt) catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) were fabricated using pulverized isotropic pitch based activated carbon fibers as catalyst supports. We controlled the textural and structural properties of catalyst support by heat-treatment with various temperatures of 900, 1200, 1500, and 2000 °C. Crystallinity of the catalyst supports increased with increasing heat-treatment temperature, leading to an increase of conductivity. In addition, the catalytic activity and durability increased and the catalyst using carbon supports heat-treated at 1200 °C showed a comparable performance and superior durability to those of a commercial catalyst. It is suggested that an increase in crystallinity was attributed to prevent elimination of Pt and carbon support, which led to less degradation of catalytic activity and durability for ORR. This work showed the possibility of pitch based activated carbon fibers as a highly durable catalyst support.

Keywords:pitch based carbon fibers;isotropic pitch;fuel cell;catalyst support;oxygen reduction reaction

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