Nickel nanorods over nickel foam as standalone anode for direct alkaline methanol and ethanol fuel cell

Tasnim Eisa; Hend Omar Mohamed; Yun Jeong Choi; Sung Gwan Park; Rafeeah Ali; Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem; Sang Eun Oh; Kyu Jung Chae

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.08.071

Nickel nanorods over nickel foam as standalone anode for direct alkaline methanol and ethanol fuel cell

Tasnim Eisa, Hend Omar Mohamed, Yun Jeong Choi, Sung Gwan Park, Rafeeah Ali, Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem, Sang Eun Oh, Kyu Jung Chae^*

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Abstract

A highly electroactive nickel nanorod (NNR)/nickel foam (NF) electrode was fabricated for direct alcohol fuel cells (DAFCs) using a simple and cost-effective hydrothermal process. The Ni/NiO nanorods were successfully grown on the surface of an NF electrode, which strongly enhanced the anode wettability and increased surface area by 18 times (11.9 m² g⁻¹), resulting in interfacial polarization resistance reduction. The NNR/NF electrode shows high electro-catalytic activity and great stability during alcohol oxidation. The current densities obtained for NNR/NF were four (479 mA cm⁻²) and six (543 mA cm⁻²) times higher than that for pristine NF in the cases of methanol and ethanol oxidations, respectively. This high current density can be attributed to the superhydrophilic surface of the Ni/NiO nanorods and corresponding high mass transfer capability between the electrolytes and Ni/NiO nanorods embedded on the surface of the electrodes. This study presents a new approach for using the novel NNR/NF as a cheap and high performance anode in DAFCs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	5948-5959
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	45
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.08.071
State	Published - Feb 21 2020

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Funding Information:
This research was funded by Korea Ministry of Environment as Global Top Project (Grant No. 2016002190008 ), and in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2019R1A2C1006356 ).

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© 2019 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC

Keywords

Direct alcohol fuel cells
Electro-catalytic activity
Ethanol oxidation
Methanol oxidation
Nanorods
Nickel foam

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Condensed Matter Physics
Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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