TY  - JOUR
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  -  Physical Sciences
KW  -  Chemistry
KW  -  Applied
KW  -  Chemistry
KW  -  Physical
KW  -  Chemistry
KW  -  Direct alcohol fuel cells
KW  -  Rotating disk electrode (RDE)
KW  -  Electro-oxidation
KW  -  Methanol
KW  -  Ethanol
KW  -  Butanol
KW  -  Platinum
KW  -  Methanol Fuel-Cell
KW  -  Rotating-Disc Voltammetry
KW  -  Ethanol Oxidation
KW  -  Electrocatalytic Oxidation
KW  -  Platinum-Electrodes
KW  -  Polycrystalline Platinum
KW  -  Aliphatic-Alcohols
KW  -  Quantitative Dems
KW  -  Surface-Structure
KW  -  Anodic-Oxidation
IS  - 3-4
AV  - public
JF  - Topics in Catalysis
SN  - 1572-9028
SP  - 240
ID  - discovery10048321
A1  - Puthiyapura, VK
A1  - Lin, W-F
A1  - Russell, AE
A1  - Brett, DJL
A1  - Hardacre, C
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-018-0893-6
VL  - 61
N2  - Electrochemical oxidation of four different alcohol molecules (methanol, ethanol, n-butanol and 2-butanol) at electrodeposited Pt film and carbon-supported Pt catalyst film electrodes, as well as the effect of mass transport on the oxidation reaction, has been studied systematically using the rotating disk electrode (RDE) technique. It was shown that oxidation current decreased with an increase in the rotation rate (?) for all alcohols studied over electrodeposited Pt film electrodes. In contrast, the oxidation current was found to increase with an increase in the ? for Pt/C in ethanol and n-butanol-containing solutions. The decrease was found to be nearly reversible for ethanol and n-butanol at the electrodeposited Pt film electrode ruling out the possibility of intermediate COads poisoning being the sole cause of the decrease and was attributed to the formation of soluble intermediate species which diffuse away from the electrode at higher ?. In contrast, an increase in the current with an increase in ? for the carbon supported catalyst may suggest that the increase in residence time of the soluble species within the catalyst layer, results in further oxidation of these species. Furthermore, the reversibility of the peak current on decreasing the ? could indicate that the surface state has not significantly changed due to the sluggish reaction kinetics of ethanol and n-butanol.
EP  - 253
TI  - Effect of Mass Transport on the Electrochemical Oxidation of Alcohols Over Electrodeposited Film and Carbon-Supported Pt Electrodes
Y1  - 2018/04//
PB  - SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
N1  - © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
ER  -