NiCo Nanoneedles on 3D Carbon Nanotubes/Carbon Foam Electrode as an Efficient Bi-Functional Catalyst for Electro-Oxidation of Water and Methanol

Tung Ngoc Pham; Ajaikumar Samikannu; Solomon Tesfalidet; Thomas Wågberg; Jyri Pekka Mikkola

doi:10.3390/catal11040500

NiCo Nanoneedles on 3D Carbon Nanotubes/Carbon Foam Electrode as an Efficient Bi-Functional Catalyst for Electro-Oxidation of Water and Methanol

Tung Ngoc Pham^*, Ajaikumar Samikannu, Solomon Tesfalidet, Thomas Wågberg, Jyri Pekka Mikkola

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Abstract

In this study, we report a 3D structured carbon foam electrode assembled from a bifunctional NiCo catalyst, carbon nanotubes (CNT), and a monolith 3D structured carbon foam (CF) as a highly active and stable electrode for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and methanol oxidation reaction (MOR). When the NiCo@CNTs/CF electrode was used as an anode in OER, after the anodization step, the electrode required a small overpotential of 320 mV to reach the current density of 10 mA cm⁻² and demonstrated excellent stability over a long testing time (total 30 h) in 1 M KOH. The as-prepared NiCo@CNTs/CF electrode also exhibited a good performance towards methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) with high current density, 100 mA cm⁻² at 0.6 V vs. Ag/AgCl, and good stability in 1 M KOH plus 0.5 M CH₃OH electrolyte. The NiCo@CNTs/CF catalyst/electrode provides a potential for application as an anode in water electrolysis and direct methanol fuel cells.

Original language	English
Article number	500
Journal	Catalysts
Volume	11
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/catal11040500
Publication status	Published - Apr 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

Funding: The Kempe Foundations are acknowledged for funding. T.W. acknowledges support from Energimyndigheten (45419-1). This work is also supported by the University of Danang, project’s code number: B2018-ÐN02-48. This research is also a part of the activities of the Bio4Energy programme in Sweden and the Åbo Akademi Process Chemistry Centre in Finland.

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Carbon foam
CNTs
MOR
NiCo bi-functional catalyst
OER

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