Ammonia decomposition produced by urea nitrogen doping on graphite felt, preparation of nitrogen doped graphite felt, compared with nitrogen doped graphite felt and graphite felt has more excellent electrochemical performance, and doping temperature and doping time have influence on the electrochemical activity of graphite felt.
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has many advantages, such as high power density, low working temperature, fast start and long service life, but hydrogen storage is used as fuel.
Graphite felt is the main cathode material of direct flow methanol fuel cell, and its performance is very important for direct flow methanol fuel cell. Graphite felt has the advantages of good stability, large surface area under unit cost, good fluid permeability, etc. but its application is limited because of its poor hydrophilicity and low electrochemical activity.
Commonly used acid treatment, heat treatment, electrochemical oxidation, nitrogen doping and other methods. Due to nitrogen doping not only improves the surface chemical activity of graphite felt, but also on the electronic structure of regulation, so in recent years, nitrogen doped graphite felt in many electrochemical devices exhibited electrocatalytic properties better than graphite felt no nitrogen doping of this study is based on previous achievements.
The ammonia produced by hydrolysis of urea by nitrogen doping treatment on graphite felt, has an important influence on the electrochemical activity of the cathode temperature,nitrogen doping does not change the crystal structure of graphite felt, but will affect the crystallite parameter.
there will not be much affected the overall morphology of nitrogen doped under certain conditions on the graphite felt mat, the nitrogen content of graphite are improved in nitrogen doped after nitrogen increased mainly pyrrolic nitrogen and pyridine type nitrogen, indicating the increase of no contribution even inhibit the electrochemical activity of graphite nitrogen on graphite felt, pyrrolic nitrogen and pyridine type nitrogen is the main reason to enhance the electrochemical activity of graphite felt the.
