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Research Trend in Electrocatalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis

음이온교환막 수전해 촉매기술 동향

  • Kim, Jiyoung (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Lee, Kiyoung (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inha University)
  • 김지영 (인하대학교 화학.화학공학융합학과) ;
  • 이기영 (인하대학교 화학.화학공학융합학과)
  • Received : 2022.04.13
  • Accepted : 2022.05.02
  • Published : 2022.05.31
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Abstract

The anion exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolysis for high purity hydrogen production is attracting attention as a next-generation green hydrogen production technology by using inexpensive non-noble metal-based catalysts instead of conventional precious metal catalysts used in proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis systems. However, since AEM water electrolysis technology is in the early stages of development, it is necessary to develop research on AEM, ionomers, electrode supports and catalysts, which are key elements of AEM water electrolysis. Among them, current research in the field of catalysts is being studied to apply a previously developed half-cell catalyst for alkali to the AEM system, and the applied catalyst has disadvantages of low activity and durability. Therefore, this review presented a catalyst synthesis technique that promoted oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) using a non-noble metal-based catalyst in an alkaline medium.

고순도 수소생산을 위한 음이온 교환막 수전해는 양성자 교환막 수전해 시스템에서 사용되는 기존 귀금속 촉매 대신 저렴한 비귀금속 기반 촉매를 사용하여 차세대 녹색 수소 생산 기술로 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 하지만 음이온 교환막 수전해 기술은 개발 초기 단계이기 때문에 음이온 교환막 수전해의 핵심 요소인 음이온 교환막, 이오노머, 전극지지체 및 촉매에 관한 연구 수행이 필요하다. 그 중, 현재 촉매 분야에서 진행되고 있는 연구들은 기개발된 알칼리용 반쪽전지 촉매를 음이온 교환막 시스템에 적용하는 방향의 연구가 진행되고 있으며 적용된 촉매는 낮은 활성도와 내구성의 문제점을 가진다. 이에 본 총설은 알칼리성 매질에서 비귀금속 기반 촉매를 사용하여 산소발생반응 및 수소발생반응을 촉진시킨 촉매 합성 기술을 제시하였다.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2019R1l1A3A01041454).

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