The present study demonstrates the effectiveness of an electrochemical treatment consisting in cycles of constant potential oxidation and reduction of polycrystalline palladium surface in the enhancement of the electro-oxidation of ethanol, ethylene glycol and glycerol. The rise of the activity after the treatment has been ascribed to the increase of both surface area and density of low coordination surface atoms. FTIR spectra showed that a change in the reaction products distribution also occurs, resulting, in some cases, in an increased tendency to cleave the CeC bond.

Enhanced electro-oxidation of alcohols at electrochemically treated polycrystalline palladium surface / Lianqin Wang;Manuela Bevilacqua;Yan-Xin Chen;Jonathan Filippi;Massimo Innocenti;Alessandro Lavacchi;Andrea Marchionni;Hamish Miller;Francesco Vizza. - In: JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES. - ISSN 0378-7753. - STAMPA. - 242:(2013), pp. 872-876. [10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.06.068]

Enhanced electro-oxidation of alcohols at electrochemically treated polycrystalline palladium surface

FILIPPI, JONATHAN;INNOCENTI, MASSIMO;LAVACCHI, ALESSANDRO;MARCHIONNI, ANDREA;VIZZA, FRANCESCO
2013

Abstract

The present study demonstrates the effectiveness of an electrochemical treatment consisting in cycles of constant potential oxidation and reduction of polycrystalline palladium surface in the enhancement of the electro-oxidation of ethanol, ethylene glycol and glycerol. The rise of the activity after the treatment has been ascribed to the increase of both surface area and density of low coordination surface atoms. FTIR spectra showed that a change in the reaction products distribution also occurs, resulting, in some cases, in an increased tendency to cleave the CeC bond.
2013
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Lianqin Wang;Manuela Bevilacqua;Yan-Xin Chen;Jonathan Filippi;Massimo Innocenti;Alessandro Lavacchi;Andrea Marchionni;Hamish Miller;Francesco ...espandi
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