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The influence of chloride impurities on Pt/C fuel cell catalyst corrosion
A Pavlišič1, P Jovanovič, V S Šelih
1Laboratory for Materials Chemistry, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. miran.gaberscek@ki.si.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 1, 2014
Abstract:
Potentiodynamic Pt/C fuel cell catalyst corrosion has been studied as a function of chloride concentration with an electrochemical flow cell (EFC) coupled with highly sensitive ICP-MS. The Pt corrosion mechanism changes significantly: the anodic corrosion is much enhanced compared to the cathodic corrosion that prevails in electrolytes without Cl(-).
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