Abstract
Glassy carbon electrode, GCE, is decorated with an electrochemically-deposited layer of reduced carbon quantum dots, RCQDs. The Pd nanoparticles are then electrodeposited on RCQDs and the Pd-NPs/RCQDs/GCE is fabricated. The fabricated electrodes are characterized by some characterization techniques. The electrocatalytic performance of the electrodes for methanol oxidation reaction, MOR, and hydrogen evolution reaction, HER, are investigated using different electrochemical measurement techniques in alkaline and acidic media, respectivly. Cyclic voltammetry, CV, Linear sweep voltammetry, LSV, Chronoamperometry, CA, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, EIS, measurements are used to evaluate the bifunctional catalytic behavior of the Pd-NPs/RCQDs/GCE. All results are compared with Pd-NPs/GCE and the effect of decorating the GCE substrate with RCQDs is discussed. The results indicate that modification of GCE with a layer of RCQDs increases the active surface area from 0.12 for Pd-NPs/GCE to 0.22 cm2 for Pd-NPs/RCQDs/GCE. Also Eonset and EIS parameters are calculated.
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