Study of Bi-functional Metal Oxide Electro-catalyst for Oxygen Evolution/Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Formic Acid Oxidation / Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reaction

Bi-functional metal oxide electro-catalyst for energy application are a novel area of research with application mainly in energy storage and conversion device. They enable a single device to perform oxidation and reduction reaction subsequently, which reduces the cost and increase the versatility of energy storage and conversion technology such as fuel cell, electrolyser and flow battery. This project will focus on bi-functional catalyst for two pair of reaction:oxygen evolution/oxygen reduction reaction and formic acid oxidation / carbon dioxide reduction reaction. These two pair of reaction are chosen because they can be the basis of carbon utilization technology to create value added products. The reaction mechanism of the electro-catalysis of these reaction on metal oxide catalyst is not currently well studied. Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) will be the main equipment used in this project. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Elod Lajos Gyenge;Edouard Asselin

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Partner:

Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

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