Electrochemical reduction of oxygen with iron phthalocyanine in neutral media

Eileen Hao Yu; Shaoan Cheng; Bruce E. Logan; Keith Scott

doi:10.1007/s10800-008-9712-2

Electrochemical reduction of oxygen with iron phthalocyanine in neutral media

Eileen Hao Yu, Shaoan Cheng, Bruce E. Logan, Keith Scott

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Recent interest in electricity production using microbial fuel cells makes it important to better understand O₂ reduction in neutral solutions with non-precious metal catalysts. Higher O₂ reduction activity was obtained using iron phthalocyanine supported on Ketjen black carbon (FePc-KJB) than with a platinum catalyst in neutral pH. At low overpotentials, a Tafel slope close to -0.06 V/dec in both acid and neutral pH suggested that the mechanism of O₂ reduction on FePc is not changed with the change of pH, and the reaction is mainly controlled by Fe^II/Fe^III redox couple. This behaviour gives us new insight into catalysis using FePc, and further supports the use of FePc as a promising catalyst for the oxygen reduction applications in neutral media.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	705-711
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Applied Electrochemistry
Volume	39
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10800-008-9712-2
State	Published - May 2009

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