Nanocrystalline ZrO₂ and Pt-doped ZrO₂ catalysts for low-temperature CO oxidation

• Amit Singhania and
• Shipra Mital Gupta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 264–271, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.29

• .8.29 Abstract Zirconia (ZrO2) nanoparticles were synthesized by solution combustion using urea as an organic fuel. Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV–vis and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) measurements

• combustion using urea as an organic fuel and metal nitrates as oxidizer, to produce high-purity ZrO2 nanoparticles. This method was used with intent to produce stable nanoparticles with high catalytic activity. Also, Pt was doped into the ZrO2 lattice by solution combustion to scrutinize the ZrO2 material as

Liquid fuel cells

• Grigorii L. Soloveichik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1399–1418, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.153

• exchange membranes; direct alcohol fuel cells; direct borohydride fuel cells; electrocatalysts; liquid fuel cells; organic fuel; proton exchange membranes; Introduction Fuel cells are considered to be one of the key elements of the “hydrogen economy”, in which hydrogen generated from renewable energy

• [5]. The main issue is the formation of carbon deposits on the anode, which is thermodynamically favorable under the reaction conditions [6]. At these temperatures organic fuels exist as vapors and therefore direct organic fuel SOFCs will not be discussed in this paper. The most widely used fuel

• ”) [40][41]. Direct hydrocarbon fuel cells Saturated hydrocarbons are attractive fuels for LFCs due to their extremely high energy density (9–10 kWh/L for full oxidation), abundance, low costs and the existing infrastructure. Early works on direct organic fuel cells were aimed at the use of liquid