Canada developed iron-based catalyst for fuel cells
In January 2010, the French National Academy of Sciences study (Varennes, PQ), has developed the iron-based catalyst for fuel cells. Sources said that precious metals, rare metals (eg platinum) is an iron-based catalyst application significantly the cost of commercial fuel cell to be reduced. Compared with other catalysts, iron-based catalyst for the catalytic activity is relatively low. This is because the iron-based catalyst for fuel cells, redox reactions of active centers is relatively small. Researchers through the development of a microporous carbon supported iron, the catalytic activity of iron-based VGP-BPS8, VGP-BPS8A, ,VGP-BPS8B, , VGP-BPS9,, VGP-BPS9/B, VGP-BPS9/S ,VGP-BPS9A, VGP-BPS9A/Bcatalyst to improve. Iron and graphite micro-lamellar voids pyridine nitrogen functional groups within the ligand binding. The researchers found that carbon load, o-phenanthroline and acetic acid mixture of iron ball milling with argon gas and ammonia in the thermal cracking of iron-based catalyst can be followed by the density of active sites increases. Currently available, the researchers further study the durability of the technology so that they are used in automotive fuel cell business.