Thursday, July 5, 2012

Graphene as supportive structure for CuPt - Ionic liquid - an electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation



a DMFC (source: wikipidea)


In order to fulfill the requirement of firm and effective renewable energy sources, direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) is one of fuel cell category which is being developed by industry and academia continuously. Yingju Liu and team of Institute of Biomaterials, College of Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China has developed an essential electro catalyst for methanol oxidation with using large surface area per unit mass of graphene as advantage to disperse catalytically active CuPt assisted with an ionic liquid. Here they have synthesized graphene in their own lab by electrochemical oxidation of ultra-pure graphite and this is worthy to read your and add knowledge on using graphene as a catalyst synthesizer. 

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