Processes leading to the formation of the composite layers aluminium oxide-metal have been investigated. Structure, composition, and other properties of this material have been examined. The mechanism of metal electrodeposition process is discussed.
This paper reports the use of a differential PDF approach performed on a laboratory X-ray diffractometer, for the analysis of nanosized PdO phase distributed on the reducible Fe₂O₃ support.
Carbon nanotubes are increasingly being used as a support for catalyst particles. Carbon nanotubes are also used for filtering and reduction, their widespread use due to the high surface area which allows for attachment to the surface of carbon nanotubes a large amount of metallic (Ni, Fe, Pt, etc.) or oxide particles, serving as catalysts. The use of ceria-zirconia mixed oxide deposited on the surface of the nanotubes has not yet been sufficiently examined. Scanning transmission electron microscope with high-angle annular dark-field imaging and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy imaging were used as primary research techniques. Conducted research using high-angle annular dark-field imaging allows determining that catalyst particles have a regular shape which is the best from the standpoint of catalysis. Using a fast Fourier transform: and diffraction pattern has identified the catalyst particles as CeZrO₂.
Ion-beam modification of materials whose service properties are mainly controlled by the surface composition is of especial interest, in particular, for electrocatalysts, namely electrodes of fuel cells - perspective chemical current sources. A catalyst is needed for effective operation of fuel cell. In this paper active layers of the electrocatalysts were prepared by ion beam assisted deposition of catalytic (platinum) and activating (cerium) metals onto carbon (AVCarb® Carbon Fiber Paper P50 and Toray Carbon Fiber Paper TGP-H-060 T) catalyst supports. Formation of layers by ion beam assisted deposition by means of the deposition of metal and mixing of precipitating layer with the substrate by accelerated ions of the same metal, was carried out. Metal deposition and mixing between the precipitable layer and surface of the substrate by accelerated (U=10 kV) ions of the same metal were conducted from a neutral vapor fraction and plasma of vacuum arc discharge of a pulsed electric arc ion source. Study of the morphology and composition of layers was carried out by the scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis, X-ray fluorescence analysis, and the Rutherford backscattering spectrometry methods. According to the investigations with the use of cyclic voltammetry, the electrocatalysts with the prepared layers exhibited catalytic activity in the reactions of electrochemical oxidation of methanol and ethanol, which form the basis for the principle of operation of low temperature direct methanol and direct ethanol fuel cells.
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