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Carbon Nanotube-Based Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Catalysts

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The development of a durable and methanol-tolerant electrocatalyst with a high oxidation reduction reaction (ORR) activity is still a significant and important challenge. In this chapter, we focus on the use of carbon nanotubes and mesoporous carbon as well as carbon black for comparison as a carbon support for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) since they are electrochemically stable. Here such stable nanocarbons are wrapped by polymer (polybenzimidazole) , and the wrapped nanocarbons/Pt catalysts exhibited high methanol tolerance , high CO-tolerance in methanol oxidation reaction, suggesting that the catalysts are important for an anode material for use in DMFCs.

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Nakashima, N. (2019). Carbon Nanotube-Based Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Catalysts. In: Nakashima, N. (eds) Nanocarbons for Energy Conversion: Supramolecular Approaches. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92917-0_2

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