Advancements in cathode catalyst and cathode layer design for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Yanyan Sun; Shlomi Polani; Fang Luo; Sebastian Ott; Peter Strasser; Fabio Dionigi

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25911-x

Advancements in cathode catalyst and cathode layer design for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Yanyan Sun
, Shlomi Polani
, Fang Luo
, Sebastian Ott
, Peter Strasser
, Fabio Dionigi

Technical University of Berlin
Central South University

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Abstract

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells have been recently developed at an increasing pace as clean energy conversion devices for stationary and transport sector applications. High platinum cathode loadings contribute significantly to costs. This is why improved catalyst and support materials as well as catalyst layer design are critically needed. Recent advances in nanotechnologies and material sciences have led to the discoveries of several highly promising families of materials. These include platinum-based alloys with shape-selected nanostructures, platinum-group-metal-free catalysts such as metal-nitrogen-doped carbon materials and modification of the carbon support to control surface properties and ionomer/catalyst interactions. Furthermore, the development of advanced characterization techniques allows a deeper understanding of the catalyst evolution under different conditions. This review focuses on all these recent developments and it closes with a discussion of future research directions in the field.

Original language	English
Article number	5984
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25911-x
State	Published - 1 Dec 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Financial support by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through Grant Reference Number STR 596/5-2 is gratefully acknowledged. We also acknowledge GAIA and CESCENDO EU research projects. The collaborative GAIA and CRESCENDO EU research and development project has received funding from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement nos. 826097 and 779366, respectively. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020—Research and Innovation Framework Program, Hydrogen Europe and Hydrogen Europe Research. This project received financial support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through grant 03XP0251 (“Korr-ZellKat”). We also acknowledge the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany for the partial support to this project. We thank BMW for the support with the project “HP low Pt loaded Catalysts 2” 2-8000038-01-EF and Alin Orfanidi, for the helpful discussions. We are greatly indebted with Alex Martinez-Bonastre and Jonathan Sharman for the helpful discussions. We also thank Deborah Jones, Frédéric Jaouen, Plamen Atanassov and Mathias Primbs greatly for the helpful discussions about MNCs and PEMFCs. Finally, we thank Gang Wu for the very helpful discussion on the recent years’ achievements in PEMFCs.

Funders	Funder number
Hydrogen Europe and Hydrogen Europe Research
Research and Innovation Framework Program
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	779366, 826097
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	STR 596/5-2
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung	03XP0251
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking

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