Evaluation of the electrochemical active surface area for carbon felt and nanostructured Ni coatings as electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction
https://doi.org/10.17586/2220-8054-2023-14-5-590-600
Abstract
This study is devoted to the evaluation of electrochemical active surface area (ECSA) for carbon felt used in various fields of electrochemical technology. For the evaluation, we used techniques based on Faraday’s law, the Randles–Sevcik equation and the calculation of the electric double layer capacitance in the electrolyte with different pH value. The measurement results are consistent with each other and for neutral, acidic and alkaline medium, the ECSA value are 20 – 30, 30 – 40 and 50 – 90 cm2 per 1 cm2 of geometric surface, respectively. Based on the results, the synthesis of nanostructured nickel coatings on carbon felt with prior electrochemical activation was performed. The pre-treatment in 1M KOH vs 1 M Na2SO4 reduces the crystallite size from 26 to 15 nm and increases the ECSA from 133 to 700 cm2 per 1 cm2 of geometric surface. These changes cause an improvement in other electrocatalytic features for hydrogen evolution reaction.
Keywords
carbon felt,
electrochemical surface area,
electrodeposition,
voltammetry,
double layer capacitance,
Randles–Sevcik equation,
nickel coating,
hydrogen evolution reaction
Supporting agencies: The authors express their gratitude to the Engineering Center of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology for the prompt possibility of performing studies on a scanning electron microscope
About the Authors
D. S. Dmitriev
Ioffe Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitry S. Dmitriev
194021 Saint Petersburg, 26 Polytechnicheskaya street
M. I. Tenevich
Ioffe Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maksim I. Tenevich
194021 Saint Petersburg, 26 Polytechnicheskaya street
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Dmitriev D.S., Tenevich M.I. Evaluation of the electrochemical active surface area for carbon felt and nanostructured Ni coatings as electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction. Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics. 2023;14(5):590-600. https://doi.org/10.17586/2220-8054-2023-14-5-590-600
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