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The fabrication of a bifunctional oxygen electrode without carbon components for alkaline secondary batteries

The fabrication of a bifunctional oxygen electrode without carbon components for alkaline secondary batteries
The fabrication of a bifunctional oxygen electrode without carbon components for alkaline secondary batteries
The fabrication of a gas diffusion electrode (GDE) without carbon components is described. It is therefore suitable for use as a bifunctional oxygen electrode in alkaline secondary batteries. The electrode is fabricated in two stages (a) the formation of a PTFE-bonded nickel powder layer on a nickel foam substrate and (b) the deposition of a NiCo2O4 spinel electrocatalyst layer by dip coating in a nitrate solution and thermal decomposition. The influence of modifications to the procedure on the performance of the GDEs in 8 M NaOH at 333 K is described. The GDEs can support current densities up to 100 mA cm-2 with state-of-the-art overpotentials for both oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction. Stable performance during >50 successive, 1 h oxygen reduction/evolution cycles at a current density of 50 mA cm-2 has been achieved.
Carbon free gas diffusion electrode (GDE), bifunctional electrode, oxygen evolution/reduction, alkaline
0378-7753
43-49
Price, Stephen
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Thompson, Stephen
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Li, Xiaohong
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Gorman, Scott
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Pletcher, Derek
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Russell, Andrea
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Gorman, Scott
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Pletcher, Derek
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Russell, Andrea
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Price, Stephen, Thompson, Stephen, Li, Xiaohong, Gorman, Scott, Pletcher, Derek, Russell, Andrea, Walsh, Frank and Wills, Richard (2014) The fabrication of a bifunctional oxygen electrode without carbon components for alkaline secondary batteries. Journal of Power Sources, 259, 43-49. (doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.02.058).

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The fabrication of a gas diffusion electrode (GDE) without carbon components is described. It is therefore suitable for use as a bifunctional oxygen electrode in alkaline secondary batteries. The electrode is fabricated in two stages (a) the formation of a PTFE-bonded nickel powder layer on a nickel foam substrate and (b) the deposition of a NiCo2O4 spinel electrocatalyst layer by dip coating in a nitrate solution and thermal decomposition. The influence of modifications to the procedure on the performance of the GDEs in 8 M NaOH at 333 K is described. The GDEs can support current densities up to 100 mA cm-2 with state-of-the-art overpotentials for both oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction. Stable performance during >50 successive, 1 h oxygen reduction/evolution cycles at a current density of 50 mA cm-2 has been achieved.

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Accepted/In Press date: 15 February 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 February 2014
Published date: 14 August 2014
Keywords: Carbon free gas diffusion electrode (GDE), bifunctional electrode, oxygen evolution/reduction, alkaline
Organisations: Engineering Science Unit, Electrochemistry

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Local EPrints ID: 364125
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/364125
ISSN: 0378-7753
PURE UUID: 9de19bd7-4d9e-4794-8344-0b8130c15ccf
ORCID for Andrea Russell: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8382-6443
ORCID for Richard Wills: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4805-7589

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Date deposited: 07 Apr 2014 08:07
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:17

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Author: Stephen Price
Author: Stephen Thompson
Author: Xiaohong Li
Author: Scott Gorman
Author: Derek Pletcher
Author: Andrea Russell ORCID iD
Author: Frank Walsh
Author: Richard Wills ORCID iD

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