Abstract
The poisoning of nitrogen oxides (NO x ) on the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) at the Pt/C catalyst has been studied for proton exchange membrane fuel cells by a three-electrode method in liquid electrolyte solution. The cyclic voltammetry (CV) results reveal that the absorption of NO x on metallic Pt is more significant than on Pt oxides, and this absorption is probably a chemical rather than an electrochemical process. Linear sweeping voltammetry (LSV) curves for the ORR show that it is the absorption of NO x on the Pt surface that results in significant performance degradation of Pt/C catalysts. This degradation is mainly due to the reduction of electrochemically active surface area, since the ORR mechanism remains almost the same after the NO x poisoning as revealed by similar Tafel slopes. Because lower potentials facilitate the reduction of NO x to water soluble N H 4 + , reducing the working potential can mitigate the poisoning of NO x . However, to completely recover the performance loss due to NO x poisoning through the potential sweeping, it is found that the oxidation removal is more efficient than the reduction removal.
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