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- 2022Advances in Electrolytes for Sodium-Sulfur Batteriescitations
- 2022Future Directions for Shape Memory Alloy Developmentcitations
- 2021Two dimensional Cu based nanocomposite materials for direct urea fuel cellcitations
- 2013Computer aided design and optimization of bi-layered tube hydroforming process
- 2012Tube hydroforming process: A reference guidecitations
- 2011Employment of finite element analysis and Response Surface Methodology to investigate the geometrical factors in T-type bi-layered tube hydroformingcitations
- 2011Integration of finite element analysis and design of experiments to analyse the geometrical factors in bi-layered tube hydroformingcitations
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Two dimensional Cu based nanocomposite materials for direct urea fuel cell
Abstract
In this work, Cu2O nanoparticles were successfully prepared onto the surface of two-dimensional graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) by using a simple solution chemistry approach. An environment-friendly reducing agent, glucose, was used for the synthesis of Cu2O NPs onto the surface of g-C3N4 without using any surfactant or additives. The surface composition, crystalline structure, morphology, as well as other properties have been investigated using XPS, XRD, SEM, FTIR, FESEM, EDS, etc. The electrochemical measurements of the prepared materials demonstrated that Cu2O exhibited a weak oxidation activity towards urea, while g-C3N4 has no activity towards urea oxidation. The Cu2O supported on the surface of g-C3N4 (Cu2O-g-C3N4) demonstrated a significant activity towards urea oxidation that reached two times that of the unsupported one. The significant increase in the performance was related to the synergetic effect between the Cu2O and g-C3N4 support. The prepared composite materials demonstrated high stability towards urea oxidation as confirmed from the stable current discharge for around 3 h without any noticeable degradation performance.