Citation: Jiuli Xia, Shiqian Du, Liang Zhang, Peng Ye, Huasheng Lin, Shanhu Chen, Yangyang Zhou, Miaoyu Li, Yabin Xu, Qie Liu, Tehua Wang, Peng Long, Li Tao, Shuangyin Wang. Graphene-encapsulated ruthenium as efficient electrocatalyst for high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2026, 37(4): 110754. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110754 shu

Graphene-encapsulated ruthenium as efficient electrocatalyst for high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

Jiuli Xia ^{a, 1} ,
Shiqian Du ^{b, 1} ,
Liang Zhang ^{b, 1} ,
Peng Ye ^{a, 1} ,
Huasheng Lin ^a ,
Shanhu Chen ^{a, *,} ,
Yangyang Zhou ^{a, b, *,} ,
Miaoyu Li ^b ,
Yabin Xu ^b ,
Qie Liu ^b ,
Tehua Wang ^{b, c} ,
Peng Long ^{b, d} ,
Li Tao ^{b, c, *,} ,
Shuangyin Wang ^b

a.
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013, China
b.
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Advanced Catalytic Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
c.
Greater Bay Area Institute for Innovation, Hunan University, Guangzhou 511300, China
d.
KBC Hydrogen Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Yiyang 413100, China

cshscu@163.com

zhouyangyang822@163.com

taoli@hnu.edu.cn

Received Date: 20 October 2024
Revised Date: 29 November 2024
Accepted Date: 11 December 2024
Available Online: 12 December 2024

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Ruthenium, possessing a comparable metal-hydrogen bond energy to Pt, has emerged as a promising electrocatalyst for the hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR), but its practical applications are hindered by susceptibility to deactivation or dissolution under operating conditions of fuel cells. Herein, graphene-encapsulated Ru nanoparticles (Ru@NG) was employed as the HOR catalyst for high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (HT-PEMFCs). The graphene shells on the Ru can block effectively the surface adsorption of phosphoric acid in electrolyte and CO in anode fuel, but does not affect H₂ free access to Ru sites, thus increase the activity expression and stability of catalysts under the high temperature, strong acid, and oxidation conditions of the HT-PEMFCs. With Ru@NG as the anode catalyst, the fuel cell delivers a peak power density of 760 mW/cm² with pure H₂, and additionally, it shows better tolerance to CO that the performance is 1.5 times that of the Pt/C catalysts with H₂ fuel containing 1% CO. This work provides an alternative strategy to design the electrocatalysts for HT-PEMFCs.
- Hydrogen oxidation reaction,
- Ruthenium,
- Electrocatalysts,
- Fuel cells,
- High-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells
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