• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.70-73
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• 2013

Iridium oxide is well known as an electrocatalyst for the water oxidation. Recently, Dr. Bard's group observed the electrocatalytic behavior of individual nanoparticle of Iridium oxide using the electrochemical amplification method by detecting the single nanoparticle collisions at the ultramicroelectrode (UME). However, the electrocatalytic current is decayed as a function of time. In this study, we investigated that the reason of electrocatalytic current decay of water oxidation at Iridium oxide nanoparticles. We identified it is due to the bubble overpotential because the cyclic current decay and recovery were synchronized to the oxygen bubble growth and coming away from an Iridium disk electrode.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07c
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• pp.1707-1709
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• 1996

For the improvement of the performance and life time of phosphoric acid fuel cell, the management of electrolyte in the electrocatalyst layer and electrolyte matrix in the cell structure is very important. Porous bipolar pinto structure, that is known as an advanced type, is generally used for the storage of electrolyte in the cell. In this paper, the single cell was made of the electrode by coating directly electrocatalyst layer on porous bipolar plate. The single cell showed $186\;mA/cm^2$ at 0.6V. This performance is similar to the performance of the conventional nonporous plate single cell. The technology of porous plate single cell could be directly used to the fabrication of stack in order to improve the performance and life time of phosphoric acid fuel cell.

• Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.19-27
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• 2000

The polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) system was developed. In order to enhance the performance of membrane electrode assembly (MEA), the transfer printing method of the electrocatalyst layer on membrane was developed. The $H_2/O_2$ single cell with an electrode area of $50cm^2$ was fabricated and tested using 20 wt.% Pt/C as an electrocatalyst and the commercial and hand-made MEA such as Nafion 115, Hanwha, Dow, Flemion T and Gore Select. The 100-cell PEMFC stack with an active electrode area of $300cm^2$ was designed and fabricated using 40 wt.% Pt/C and 30 wt.% Pt-Ru/C as a cathode and anode electrocatalysts, respectively. The performance of PEMFC system was obtained to be 7kW (250A at 28V) and 3.5kW (70A at 50V) at $80^{\circ}C$ by flowing $H_2/air$ and methanol reformed fuel gas/air, respectively.

• Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.549-555
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• 2019

Electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) using Pt nanoparticles or bimetal on carabon was studied. Currently, the best catalyst is platinum, which is a limited resource and expensive to commercialize. In this paper, we investigated the cheaper and more active electrocatalysts by making Pt nanoparticles and adding 3D transition metal such as copper. Electrocatalysts were obtained by chemical reduction based on ethylene glycol solutions. Elemental analysis and particle size were confirmed by XRD and TEM. The electrochemical surface area (ECSA) and activity of the catalyst were determined by electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltammetry and linear sweep voltammetry method. The commercialized Pt support on carbon (Pt/C, JM), synthesis Pt/C and synthesis Pt3Cu1 alloy nanoparticles supported on carbon were compared. We confirmed that the synthesized Pt3-Cu1/C has high electrochemical performance than commercial Pt/C. It is expected to develop an electrocatalyst with high activity at low price by increasing the oxygen reduction reaction rate of the fuel cell.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.217-222
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• 2020

The design and fabrication of catalysts with low-cost and high electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) have remained challenging because of the sluggish kinetics of this reaction. The key to the pursuit of efficient electrocatalysts is to design them with high surface area and more active sites. In this work, we have successfully synthesized a highly stable and active NiCo₂S₄ nanowire array on a Ni-foam substrate (NiCo₂S₄ NW/NF) via a two-step hydrothermal synthesis approach. This NiCo₂S₄ NW/NF exhibits overpotential as low as 275 mV, delivering a current density of 20 mA cm^-2 (versus reversible hydrogen electrode) with a low Tafel slope of 89 mV dec^-1 and superior long-term stability for 20 h in 1 M KOH electrolyte. The outstanding performance is ascribed to the inherent activity of the binder-free deposited, vertically aligned nanowire structure, which provides a large number of electrochemically active surface sites, accelerating electron transfer, and simultaneously enhancing the diffusion of electrolyte.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.17-20
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• 2020

Developing effective and earth-abundant electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is critical for the commercialization of a water splitting system. In particular, the overpotential of the OER is relatively higher than the HER, and thus, it is considered that one of the important methods to enhance the performance of the electrocatalyst is to reduce the overpotential of the OER. In this work, we present a simple synthetic route for triple perovskite Nd_1.5Ba_1.5CoFeMnO_x with high performance OER and HER activity. This triple perovskite structure which shows high crystallinity through combustion method shows superior bifunctional catalytic performance in alkaline media. We believe that the prepared triple provskite with high performance OER and HER activity can give further feasibility for the commercialization of a water splitting system.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.64 no.1
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• pp.49-53
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• 2020

• Rapid Communication in Photoscience
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.56-58
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• 2014

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) catalyzed hydrogen production from water containing various electron donors under visible light (${\lambda}$ > 420 nm). As-received SWNTs were effective for hydrogen production, yet the effect vanished when they underwent surface chemical treatments. Upon coupling with CdSe particles, however, the surface treated SWNTs were far superior to non-treated SWNTs by a factor of ~30 for hydrogen production.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.3209-3210
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• 2011

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2017.03a
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• pp.365-371
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 $Ni_2P$에서의 물의 산화를 Density Functional Theory(DFT) 계산을 이용하여 그 메커니즘을 확인하였다. 기존의 $Ni_2P$ 각 면의 표면 에너지에 관한 연구를 바탕으로 하여 P termination 된 (0001)면을 선택하였고 흡착 에너지를 계산하여 표면에 hydroxide와 oxygen coverage를 결정하였다. 산소 생성반응의 각 단계는 두 개의 site에서 계산되었고 두 site 모두 반응 결정 단계는 $^*OOH$가 형성되는 단계였다. 과전압 값을 비교한 결과 center site가 더 선호됨을 확인하였고 Center site에서 pH=14 일 때의 과전압 값은 0.64 eV으로 계산되었다.