| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K58982/01 |
| Title: |
DIFFUSE IMAGING AS A PROBE OF LOCAL CHARGED STATES ON PT-RU ELECTRODES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Attard, Professor GA |
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| Department: |
Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
Cardiff University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
20 March 1996 |
Ends: |
19 June 1998 |
Value (£): |
162,783
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Electrochemical Science & Eng. |
Fuel Cell Technologies |
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| Energy |
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With the aid of well defined transistion metal electrodes, scanning tunelling microscopy (STM), will be used to test a new theory whereby the on-set of methanol oxidation (eg in fuel cells) is though to occur at potentials posistive of the local potential of zero charge (PZTC). The relationship between the surface diffusion of adsorved anions/solvent and local charge is predicited to give rise to diffuse images in the vicinity of the local PZTC. For the first time elemental resolution of surface composition (via diffuse imaging STM) will be attempted based on this phenomenon. It is hoped that a correlation between the on-set of methanol oxidation with the generation of diffuse images close to the PZTC will verify the proposed theory inder reaction conditions. It is beleived also that the theory will set an upper limit on what is acheiveable using such anodes for direct methanol oxidation.
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