Electrocatalysis for Membrane Fuel Cells Methods, Modelling, and Applications

by Alonso-Vante, Nicolas; Di Noto, Vito

• ISBN13: 9783527348374
• ISBN10: 3527348379
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-12-11
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

Comprehensive resource covering hydrogen oxidation reaction, oxygen reduction reaction, classes of electrocatalytic materials, and characterization methods

Electrocatalysis for Fuel Cells focuses on all aspects of electrocatalysis for energy applications, covering perspectives as well as the low temperature fuel systems principles, with main emphasis on hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) and the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR).

Following an introduction to basic principles of electrochemistry for electrocatalysis with attention to the methods to obtain the parameters crucial to characterize these systems, Electrocatalysis for Fuel Cells covers sample topics such as:

• Electrocatalytic materials and electrode configurations, including precious versus non-precious metal centers, stability and the role of supports for catalytic nano-objects;
• Fundamentals on characterization techniques of materials and the various classes of electrocatalytic materials;
• Theoretical explanations of materials and systems using both Density Functional Theory (DFT) and molecular modeling;
• Principles and methods in the analysis of fuel cells systems, fuel cells integration and subsystem design.

Electrocatalysis for Fuel Cells quickly and efficiently introduces the field of electrochemistry, along with synthesis and testing in prototypes of materials, to researchers and professionals interested in renewable energy and electrocatalysis for chemical energy conversion.

Author Biography

Nicolas Alonso-Vante has been a Professor at the University of Poitiers since September 1997. His main research interests are (Photo) electrochemistry and (Photo) electrocatalysis of novel materials using various ex-situ and in-situ techniques, fuel generation, interfacial characterization and surface analytical techniques. Prof. Alonso-Vante has authored over 250 publications, book chapters, is editor of a two-volume e-book on electrochemistry in Spanish, author of two books, and six patents. Current h-index 46 with ca. 6877 citations.

Prof. Vito Di Noto is an electrochemist with more than 30 years of experience in the research and development of advanced functional materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices. Currently, his research activity is focused on the synthesis and the studies of the structure, relaxation phenomena and electrochemistry of electrode materials, ion-conducting and dielectric materials. He is the present President of the Italian Electrochemical Society. He organized and chaired top-level events in the field of electrochemistry, including several Symposia of the Electrochemical Society, meetings of the International Society for Solid State Ionics, and International Symposia on Polymer Electrolytes. He authored/co-authored over 291 papers: 245 are peer-reviewed papers, 10 are book chapters, 28 are patents and 8 are papers on proceedings.

Table of Contents

Overview of Systems
Basics -
Fundamentals
State of the Art
Physical-Chemical Characterizations
Modelling
Protocols
Systems