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Preparation of Uniform Porous Carbon from Mesophase Pitch and Its Characteristics of Catalyst Support for the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell  

Nam, Ki-Don (Advanced Energy Research Department, Korea Institute of Energy Research)
Kim, Tae-Jin (Advanced Energy Research Department, Korea Institute of Energy Research)
Kim, Sang-Kyung (Advanced Energy Research Department, Korea Institute of Energy Research)
Lee, Byoung-Rok (Advanced Energy Research Department, Korea Institute of Energy Research)
Peck, Dong-Hyun (Advanced Energy Research Department, Korea Institute of Energy Research)
Ryu, Seung-Kon (Department of Chemical Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Jung, Doo-Hwan (Advanced Energy Research Department, Korea Institute of Energy Research)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.17, no.2, 2006 , pp. 223-228 More about this Journal
Abstract
Pore-size controlled porous carbons for the catalyst supports of the direct methanol fuel cell were prepared from the mesophase pitch by using the silica spheres with different sizes. Pitch solution in THF and spheres were mixed, carbonized and etched by 5 M NaOH to make porous carbon. Specific surface area of the porous carbons was $14.7{\sim}87.7m^2/g$ and average pore diameter was 50~550 nm which were dependent on the size of silica spheres. Aqueous reduction method was used to load 60 wt% PtRu on the prepared porous carbon supports. The electro-oxidation activity of the supported 60 wt% Pt-Ru catalysts was measured by cyclic voltammetry and unit cell test. For the 60 wt% Pt-Ru/porous carbon synthesized by 50 nm silica, current density value in the cyclic voltammetry test was $123mA/cm^2$ at 0.4 V and peak power density in the unit cell test were 105 and $162mW/cm^2$ under oxygen at 60 and $80^{\circ}C$, respectively.
Keywords
DMFC; silica sphere; porous carbon; catalyst support; cyclic voltammetry;
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