TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent progress in direct urea fuel cell
AU - Putri, Yulia Mariana Tesa Ayudia
AU - Gunlazuardi, Jarnuzi
AU - Yulizar, Yoki
AU - Wibowo, Rahmat
AU - Einaga, Yasuaki
AU - Ivandini, Tribidasari A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding information: This work was funded by Hibah Riset PMDSU Kemenristek Dikti 2020. Contract No. NKB-431/UN2.RST/HKP.05.00/2020.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Yulia Mariana Tesa Ayudia Putri et al., published by De Gruyter.
PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - Direct urea fuel cell (DUFC) has attracted many researchers' attention due to the use of wastewater, for example urine, which contains urea for the fuel. The main factor to improve the electrochemical oxidation performance of urea and further enhance the performances of DUFC is the use of a good anode catalyst. Non-noble metal catalyst, such as nickel, is reported to have a good catalytic activity in alkaline medium towards urea electro-oxidation. Besides optimizing the anode catalyst, the use of supporting electrode which has a large surface area as well as the use of H2O2 as an oxidant to replace O2 could help to improve the performances. The recent progress in anode catalysts for DUFC is overviewed in this article. In addition, the advantages and disadvantages as well as the factors that could help to escalate the performance of DUFC are discussed together with the challenges and future perspectives.
AB - Direct urea fuel cell (DUFC) has attracted many researchers' attention due to the use of wastewater, for example urine, which contains urea for the fuel. The main factor to improve the electrochemical oxidation performance of urea and further enhance the performances of DUFC is the use of a good anode catalyst. Non-noble metal catalyst, such as nickel, is reported to have a good catalytic activity in alkaline medium towards urea electro-oxidation. Besides optimizing the anode catalyst, the use of supporting electrode which has a large surface area as well as the use of H2O2 as an oxidant to replace O2 could help to improve the performances. The recent progress in anode catalysts for DUFC is overviewed in this article. In addition, the advantages and disadvantages as well as the factors that could help to escalate the performance of DUFC are discussed together with the challenges and future perspectives.
KW - anode catalyst
KW - electro-oxidation
KW - fuel cell
KW - urea
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U2 - 10.1515/chem-2021-0100
DO - 10.1515/chem-2021-0100
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85120342111
VL - 19
SP - 1116
EP - 1133
JO - Open Chemistry
JF - Open Chemistry
SN - 2391-5420
IS - 1
ER -