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Oxygen Reduction Reaction

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Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and metal air batteries are considered green and efficient electrochemical energy devices and both include reduction of oxygen at cathode during the working of device. Due to the sluggish reaction kinetics of ORR, it is considered the performance limiting factor and to cope with this issue scientists are trying to introduce low cost, highly durable and efficient electrocatalyst for cathode reaction. After the synthesis of catalyst material, different electrochemical techniques including Steady-state polarization, Cyclic voltammetry, Rotating disk electrode and Rotating ring disk electrode are used to check the performance and durability of ORR catalysts. In PEMFCs, water should be produced along with some heat by the 4-electron transfer reaction between oxygen, protons and the electrons. The reported ORR catalysts can be classified as platinum group metal catalyst, platinum group metal free catalyst and metal free catalysts. All the catalysts have their own pros and cons, while platinum supported carbon (Pt/C) is considered the state-of-the-art catalyst for both fuel cell and metal batteries.

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  1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Electrochemical Energy Devices Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China

    Rizwan Haider & Xianxia Yuan

  2. School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai’an, 223003, People’s Republic of China

    Muhammad Bilal

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  3. Department of Chemsitry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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Haider, R., Yuan, X., Bilal, M. (2020). Oxygen Reduction Reaction. In: Inamuddin, Boddula, R., Asiri, A. (eds) Methods for Electrocatalysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27161-9_15

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