Advanced Electro-Catalysts through Crystallographic Enhancement

In this project, the Gang Wu lab at the University at Buffalo is collaborating with  Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, to develop a new type of high-surface-area and large size nitrogen-doped graphene tube (NGTs) support. NGTs are used as an advanced support to boost Pt cathode performance for proton exchange membrane fuel cells, which holds great promise to meet the US DOE 2020 metric targets for fuel cell vehicle applications. This project is supported from U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE), Fuel Cell Technologies Office. 

• Wang, X.; Li, Q.; Pan, H.; Lin, Y.; Ke, Y.; Sheng, H.; Swihart, M. T.; Wu, G. Size-controlled large-diameter and few-walled carbon nanotube catalysts for oxygen reduction. Nanoscale, 7, 20290-20298, 2015.
  
  
• Li Q; Pan H; Higgins D.; Zhang G; Cao R; Cho J; Wu G, Metal-Organic Framework Derived Bamboo-like Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Tubes as an Active Matrix for Hybrid Oxygen-Reduction Electrocatalysts. Small, 11, 1443-1452, 2015.
• Li Y; Liu C; Liu Y; Feng B; Li L; Pan H; Kellogg W R; Higgins D; Wu G. Sn-doped TiO₂ modified carbon to support Pt cathode catalysts for direct methanol fuel cells, J Power Sources, 286, 354-361, 2015.
  
  
• Li Q; Wu L; Wu G; Su D; Lv HF; Zhang S; Zhu W; Casimir A; Zhu H; Mendoza-Garcia A; Sun S, A New Approach to Fully Ordered fct-FePt Nanoparticles for Much Enhanced Electrocatalysis in Acid, Nano Lett., 15 2468-2473, 2015.
  
  
• Li Y.; Liu C.; Osgood H.; Wu G., CeO₂-Modified α-MoO₃ Nanorods as a Synergistic Support for Pt Nanoparticles with Enhanced COads Tolerance during Methanol Oxidation, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19 (1), 330-339, 2017.

• Mengjie Chen (Ph.D.)
• Anix Casimir (M.S.)
• Kate Chen (M.E.)
• Hannah Osgood (undergraduate)
• William Kellogg (undergraduate)
• Hengyu Pan (undergraduate)