Imperial College London

ProfessorAnthonyKucernak

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Chemistry

Professor of Physical Chemistry
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5831anthony Website

 
 
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Location

 

G22BMolecular Sciences Research HubWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Malko:2016:10.1039/C5TA05794A,
author = {Malko, D and Lopes, T and Symianakis, E and Kucernak, ARJ},
doi = {10.1039/C5TA05794A},
journal = {Journal of Materials Chemistry A},
pages = {142--152},
title = {The intriguing poison tolerance of non-precious metal oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5TA05794A},
volume = {4},
year = {2016}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - Electrochemical devices such as fuel cells are key to a sustainable energy future. However the applicability of such underrealistic conditions is not viable to date. Expensive precious metals are used as electrocatalysts and contaminants presentin the operating media poison the utilized catalysts. Here the one pot synthesis of a highly active, self-supporting andsurprisingly poison tolerant catalyst is reported. The polymerisation of 1,5-Diaminonaphthalene provides self-assemblednanospheres, which upon pyrolysis form a catalytically active high surface area material. Tolerance to a wide range ofsubstances that poison precious metal based catalysts combined with high electrocatalytic activity might enable numerousadditional technological applications. In addition to fuel cells these could be metal-air batteries, oxygen-depolarized chloralkalicathodes, oxygen sensors, medical implantable devices, waste water treatment and as counter electrodes for manyother sensors where the operating medium is a complex and challenging mixture.
AU - Malko,D
AU - Lopes,T
AU - Symianakis,E
AU - Kucernak,ARJ
DO - 10.1039/C5TA05794A
EP - 152
PY - 2016///
SN - 2050-7496
SP - 142
TI - The intriguing poison tolerance of non-precious metal oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts
T2 - Journal of Materials Chemistry A
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5TA05794A
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/27714
VL - 4
ER -