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New Composite Cathode Materials for Fuel Cell Applications

2017/27/B/ST5/01004

Keywords:

spinels nanoparticles electrocatalysis modified carbons non-noble metal catalysts oxygen reduction reaction fuel cells

Descriptors:

  • ST5_10: Functional materials/nanomaterials, nanoparticles
  • ST5_18:
  • ST4_9: Biological chemistry

Panel:

ST5 - Materials: materials synthesis, structure-properties relations, advanced and functional materials with designed properties, (macro)molecular architecture, material engineering

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Chemii

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Krzysztof Kruczała 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 7

Call: OPUS 14 - announced on 2017-09-15

Amount awarded: 999 880 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-07-17

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-07-16

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Monitor komputerowy Dell.
  2. Notebook Dell (6 924 PLN)
  3. Pompa dozująca z wyposażeniem (6 000 PLN)
  4. Autoklaw mikrofalowy z wyposażeniem (35 000 PLN)
  5. Reduktor do gazów wysokiej czystości (1 783 PLN)
  6. Zestaw do testowania ogniw paliwowych.
  7. Chłodziarko-żamrażarka laboratoryjna (5 289 PLN)
  8. Modelowe ogniwo paliwowe z wyposażeniem (20 000 PLN)
  9. Zestaw do pomiarów elektrochemicznych : potencjostat, wraz z modułem impendancyjnym oraz bipotencjostatu , elektrody (RDE i RRDE) (170 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (5)
  1. Switching the Locus of Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions between Spinel Active Phase and Carbon Carrier upon Heteroatoms Doping
    Authors:
    Szymon Wierzbicki, Termeh Darvishzad, Joanna Gryboś, Paweł Stelmachowski, Zbigniew Sojka, Krzysztof Kruczała*
    Academic press:
    Catalysis Today (rok: 2023, tom: 418, strony: 114043), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.cattod.2023.114043 - link to the publication
  2. Are Radicals Formed during Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Operation?
    Authors:
    S. Wierzbicki, J.C. Douglin, A. Kostuch, D.R. Dekel, K. Kruczała
    Academic press:
    Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (rok: 2020, tom: 11(18), strony: 7630-7636), Wydawca: ACS Publications
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02349 - link to the publication
  3. Operando EPR Study of Radical Formation in Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
    Authors:
    Szymon Wierzbicki, John C. Douglin, Ramesh K. Singh, Dario R. Dekel*, Krzysztof Kruczała*
    Academic press:
    ACS Catalysis (rok: 2023, tom: 13, strony: 2744-2750), Wydawca: American Chemical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1021/acscatal.2c05843 - link to the publication
  4. Selectivity of Mixed Iron-Cobalt Spinels Deposited on a N,S-Doped Mesoporous Carbon Support in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Alkaline Media
    Authors:
    A. Kostuch, J. Gryboś, Sz. Wierzbicki, Z. Sojka, K. Kruczała
    Academic press:
    Materials (rok: 2021, tom: 14, strony: 820), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/ma14040820 - link to the publication
  5. The joint effect of electrical conductivity and surface oxygen functionalities of carbon supports on the oxygen reduction reaction studied over bare supports and Mn–Co spinel/carbon catalysts in alkaline media
    Authors:
    Aldona Kostuch, Sebastian Jarczewski, Marcin K. Surówka, Piotr Kuśtrowski, Zbigniew Sojka and Krzysztof Kruczała *
    Academic press:
    Catalysis Science and Technology (rok: 2021, tom: 11, strony: 7578), Wydawca: Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/d1cy01115d - link to the publication