TY - JOUR
T1 - Mo-V-O Based Electrocatalysts for Low Temperature Alcohol Oxidation
AU - Pacquette, Adele L.
AU - Oh, David S.
AU - Gewirth, Andrew A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation. A.L.P. thanks Furong Sun for assistance in the collection and discussion of the GCMS data in the Mass Spectrometry facilities of the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois. XRD, XPS, and SEM were carried out in part in the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory Central Facilities, University of Illinois.
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© 2015 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2016/7/28
Y1 - 2016/7/28
N2 - There is a growing interest in alcohol oxidation electrochemistry due to its role in renewable energy technologies. The goal of this work was to develop active non- precious metal electrocatalysts based on the Mo-V-(M)-O (M is Nb, Te) lattice. Selective gaseous alkane oxidation had been previously observed on these catalysts at elevated temperatures above 300 °C. In this study, the activity of the catalysts at lower temperatures, 25-60 °C, was investigated. Hydrothermal conditions were used to synthesize the Mo-V-(M)-O mixed oxides. Physical characterization of the catalysts were obtained by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron micrography (SEM) equipped with energy dispersive X-ray (EDX), transmission electron micrography (TEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The catalytic activity for the oxidation of cyclohexanol was studied electrochemically. Chronoamperometric studies were used to evaluate the long-term performance of the catalysts. The onset of alcohol oxidative current was observed between 0.2 and 0.6 V versus Ag/AgCl. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis was used to determine the nature of the oxidative products. The mild oxidation products, cyclohexanone and cyclohexene, were observed after oxidation at 60 °C. The catalytic activity increased in the order Mo-V-O < Mo-V-Te-O < Mo-V-Te-Nb-O. Mo-V-(Te,Nb)-O based electrocatalysts efficiently catalyzed the oxidation of alcohols at low temperatures.
AB - There is a growing interest in alcohol oxidation electrochemistry due to its role in renewable energy technologies. The goal of this work was to develop active non- precious metal electrocatalysts based on the Mo-V-(M)-O (M is Nb, Te) lattice. Selective gaseous alkane oxidation had been previously observed on these catalysts at elevated temperatures above 300 °C. In this study, the activity of the catalysts at lower temperatures, 25-60 °C, was investigated. Hydrothermal conditions were used to synthesize the Mo-V-(M)-O mixed oxides. Physical characterization of the catalysts were obtained by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron micrography (SEM) equipped with energy dispersive X-ray (EDX), transmission electron micrography (TEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The catalytic activity for the oxidation of cyclohexanol was studied electrochemically. Chronoamperometric studies were used to evaluate the long-term performance of the catalysts. The onset of alcohol oxidative current was observed between 0.2 and 0.6 V versus Ag/AgCl. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis was used to determine the nature of the oxidative products. The mild oxidation products, cyclohexanone and cyclohexene, were observed after oxidation at 60 °C. The catalytic activity increased in the order Mo-V-O < Mo-V-Te-O < Mo-V-Te-Nb-O. Mo-V-(Te,Nb)-O based electrocatalysts efficiently catalyzed the oxidation of alcohols at low temperatures.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b03010
DO - 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b03010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84979889743
SN - 1932-7447
VL - 120
SP - 15553
EP - 15562
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry C
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry C
IS - 29
ER -