Acta Chimica Sinica ›› 2013, Vol. 71 ›› Issue (08): 1101-1110.DOI: 10.6023/A13030276 Previous Articles     Next Articles

Review

氧还原反应中的银基催化剂

张栋a, 张存中a,b, 穆道斌a,b, 吴伯荣a,b, 吴锋a,b   

  1. a 北京理工大学化工与环境学院 北京 100081;
    b 国家高技术绿色材料发展中心 北京 100081
  • 投稿日期:2013-03-14 发布日期:2013-05-16
  • 通讯作者: 张存中, E-mail: czzhangchem@bit.edu.cn; Tel.: 0086-010-68912657 E-mail:czzhangchem@bit.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:

    项目受动力电池及化学能源材料北京市高等学校工程研究中心开放基金资助课题(2013)、厦门大学固体表面物理化学国家重点实验室开放基金(2010-18)、国家重点基础研究发展计划(973)项目(No. 2009CB220100)资助.

A Review of Ag-based Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Zhang Donga, Zhang Cunzhonga,b, Mu Daobina,b, Wu Boronga,b, Wu Fenga,b   

  1. a School of Chemical Engineering and the Environment, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081;
    b National Development Center of High Technology Green Materials, Beijing 100081
  • Received:2013-03-14 Published:2013-05-16
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by Beijing Higher Institution Engineering Research Center of Power Battery and Chemical Energy Materials (2013), Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces (2010-18) and the National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB220100).

There is great interest in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in basic solution due to the development of alkaline fuel cell and metal air battery. Pt is a kind of highly active catalyst for ORR to go through 4e pathway. However, the price of Pt is expensive, and the annual production is only 181.6 tons, which is far to meet the usage of electric vehicles. On the contrary, Ag is not only much cheaper than Pt, but can also catalyze ORR to pass 4e procedure. In addition, Ag is more active than Pt for 4e process in more concentrated alkaline solution and at higher temperature. Therefore, this paper briefly reviews different types of Ag-based catalysts, which are used in the field of the ORR, such as, pure Ag, carbon-supported Ag, Ag composite catalysts, Ag binary alloys and Ag-transition metal oxides. We introduce merits and drawbacks, possible research directions of the above Ag-based catalysts, respectively, and show a comparative analysis on the update results of these Ag-based catalysts, especially for the carbon-supported Ag, a proper weight proportion of Ag and particle size and morphology of Ag cluster should be found out and researched in the future. Moreover, the state-of-the-art research and catalytic mechanism of Ag binary alloys are also reviewed, interestingly, two different catalytic mechanism explanations of Ag binary, based on the same institute, University of Texas at Austin, are compared and analyzed. Furthermore, the relationship between catalysis performance for ORR and structure of Ag-based catalysts are properly elaborated, and we also introduce some of the main characterization techniques (electrochemical techniques, structure analysis, morphological analysis, density functional theory etc.) Based on the common characteristics of all of Ag-based catalysts, at the end of this review, we propose some promising practical application and research tendency for Ag-based catalysts. The catalytic activity of transition metals in aprotic electrolytes is similar to that of transition metal in strong basic aqueous electrolytes, the excellent Ag based catalysts for alkaline fuel cell and metal air battery may play well in nonaqueous Li air battery, too.

Key words: silver, catalyst, basic solution, oxygen reduction reaction, catalytic mechanism