Chapter 6
Application of Oxygen Reduction
Catalysts
Jinliang Zhu, Xiaolan Wei, Yongliang Li, and Pei Kang Shen
Abstract Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has been realized existing in many
devices like low-temperature fuel cells, metal-air (oxygen) batteries, oxygen sensors
and the production of hydrogen peroxide. Therefore, oxygen reduction catalyst has
attracted much attention. This chapter will focus on key parameters of ORR performance, and the research progress of metal-air batteries and secondary lithium-air
batteries.
Keywords Oxygen reduction reaction · Fuel cell · Metal-air battery · Secondary
lithium-air battery
6.1 Application of fuel cells
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is the cathode reaction of low-temperature fuel
cell. The slow oxygen reduction kinetics seriously restricts the energy conversion
efficiency of low-temperature fuel cell and which is the key of fuel cell. In the
oxygen reduction test of fuel cell, the peak-starting potential, half-wave potential
and limiting current obtained from the oxygen reduction curve can obviously reflect
the catalytic performance of the oxygen reduction electrocatalytic material. In this
section, peak potential, half-wave potential and limiting current are discussed.
J. Zhu · P. K. Shen (B)
Collaborative Innovation Center of Sustainable Energy Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of
Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
e-mail: pkshen@gxu.edu.cn
X. Wei
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology,
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Y. Li
College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen,
Guangdong, China
© Guangxi Science & Technology Publishing House 2021
P. K. Shen, Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6077-8_6
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Application of Oxygen Reduction
Catalysts
Jinliang Zhu, Xiaolan Wei, Yongliang Li, and Pei Kang Shen
Abstract Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has been realized existing in many
devices like low-temperature fuel cells, metal-air (oxygen) batteries, oxygen sensors
and the production of hydrogen peroxide. Therefore, oxygen reduction catalyst has
attracted much attention. This chapter will focus on key parameters of ORR performance, and the research progress of metal-air batteries and secondary lithium-air
batteries.
Keywords Oxygen reduction reaction · Fuel cell · Metal-air battery · Secondary
lithium-air battery
6.1 Application of fuel cells
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is the cathode reaction of low-temperature fuel
cell. The slow oxygen reduction kinetics seriously restricts the energy conversion
efficiency of low-temperature fuel cell and which is the key of fuel cell. In the
oxygen reduction test of fuel cell, the peak-starting potential, half-wave potential
and limiting current obtained from the oxygen reduction curve can obviously reflect
the catalytic performance of the oxygen reduction electrocatalytic material. In this
section, peak potential, half-wave potential and limiting current are discussed.
J. Zhu · P. K. Shen (B)
Collaborative Innovation Center of Sustainable Energy Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of
Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
e-mail: pkshen@gxu.edu.cn
X. Wei
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology,
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Y. Li
College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen,
Guangdong, China
© Guangxi Science & Technology Publishing House 2021
P. K. Shen, Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6077-8_6
215