Oxygen reduction on rotating porous cylinder of modified reticulated vitreous carbon |
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Authors: | Mohamed Ismail Awad Mahmoud M. Saleh Takeo Ohsaka |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Electronic Chemistry, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226 8502, Japan;(2) Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt |
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Abstract: | A rotating cylinder porous electrode (RCPE) of reticulated vitreous carbon (RVC) matrix was used for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in H2SO4 solutions. Cyclic voltammetry and hydrodynamic voltammetric techniques were used for electrochemical characterization of the ORR. Cyclic voltammograms in stationary solutions showed better performance of the anodically oxidized RVC (for periods of 1 and 5 min) for the ORR than the untreated RVC in which the first scan (ORR) after the surface treatment was of no utility, and the second scan was presented here. The hydrodynamic voltammograms obtained at the treated RCPE gave well-defined limiting current plateau with positively shifted onset potential as compared with the untreated (plain) RVC electrode. The analysis of the limiting current data on RCPE and the determination of a limiting current enhancement factor α enabled us to quantify the enhancement extent exerted by the anodic oxidation treatment. An enhancement factor of up to ∼3 was obtained at the RCPE electrode anodically oxidized for 5 min. It was found that the α slightly decreased with the rotation speed depending on the extent of anodic oxidation of RVC. This was attributed to the different mode of mass transfer (diffusion) to the interior of the micropores with different microstructure resulting from different extent of anodic oxidation. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic and scanning electron microscopic measurements helped us to characterize the anodically oxidized RVC surface. |
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Keywords: | Reticulated vitreous carbon Electrocatalysis Oxygen reduction Hydrodynamic voltammetry XPS |
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