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MM: Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik
MM 44: Functional Materials II
MM 44.11: Talk
Friday, March 18, 2011, 13:00–13:15, IFW A
Novel method to produce catalysts for oxygen reduction re- action by dual plasma process — •Christian Walter1, Volker Bruser1, Antje Quade1, Klaus-Dieter Weltmann1, Kurt Kummer2, and Denis Vyalikh2 — 1INP Greifswald e.V. Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2 17489 Greifswald — 2TU Dresden Inst. für Festkörperphysik Helmholtzstraße 10 01069 Dresden
Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have been recognised as a potential future power source for zero emission vehicles [1].
Today, Pt is the only efficient catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in PEMFCs. But for reasons of availability and cost efficiency there is a great desire to replace Pt with inexpensive and abundant catalysts (Non-noble-metal catalysts (NNMCs)). Metal (Co/Fe)/N/C
composites have emerged as the most promising alternatives within the NNMcs. Those composites are either prepared by pyrolisation of Co- or Fe-N4-macrocycles at high temperatures in an inert atmosphere or by introducing the metal and the nitrogen precursors separately onto carbon support and subsequent pyrolisation [2]. But it has also been shown that metal-polymer-composites can be produced by a dual PECVD/PVD process [3]. In this contribution, such a dual process is used with pyrrole as the polymer and cobalt as metal to obtain catalytically active composites. Advantages and shortfalls of this technology are discussed.
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