Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Cataler Corporation

Yousuke Horiuchi

Hiroaki Takahashi

Tomoaki Terada

Nobuaki Mizutani

Tomohiro Ishida

Toshihiro Ikai

Godai Kitayama

Hiroo Yoshikawa

Tetsuo Kawamura

Sozaburo Ohashi

Takahiro Nagata

Yusuke Itoh

Akihiro Hori

Toshiharu Tabata

Susumu Enomoto

A fuel cell electrode catalyst includes: catalyst metal particles containing at least one of platinum or a platinum alloy; and support particles supporting the catalyst metal particles. The crystallite size 2r obtained from an X-ray diffraction image of the catalyst metal particles is 3.8 nm or less, where r represents a crystallite radius of the catalyst metal particles obtained from the X-ray diffraction image. The amount of CO adsorption Y (mL/g-Pt) on the fuel cell electrode catalyst satisfies Y≤40.386/r+1.7586.

Fuel cell electrode catalyst, method for selecting the same, and fuel cell including the same

A fuel cell electrode catalyst includes catalyst metal particles and electrically conductive support particles supporting the catalyst metal particles. In the fuel cell electrode catalyst, a proportion of a surface area occupied by the catalyst metal particles with particle sizes of 4.5 nm or less to a surface area of the catalyst metal particles calculated from a transmission electron microscope image is 5% or less.

An object of the present invention is to achieve both high initial performance and durability performance of a fuel cell. Such object can be achieved by using a fuel cell electrode catalyst that includes a solid carbon carrier and an alloy of platinum and cobalt supported on the carrier.

Fuel cell electrode catalyst and method for producing the same

A method for producing a gold fine particle-supported carrier catalyst for a fuel cell, which reduces a gold ion in a liquid phase reaction system containing a carbon carrier by means of an action of a reducing agent, to reduce the gold ion, deposit, and support a gold fine particle on the carbon carrier, wherein a reduction rate of the gold ion is set within the range of 330 to 550 mV/h, and pH is set within the range of 4.0 to 6.0 to perform the reduction of the gold ion, deposition, and support of the gold fine particle.

Method for producing gold fine particle-supported carrier catalyst for fuel cell, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell catalyst having gold fine particle

To provide a production process of an electrode catalyst for fuel cell whose initial voltage is high and whose endurance characteristics, especially, whose voltage drop being caused by high-potential application is less. A production process according to the present invention of an electrode catalyst for fuel cell is characterized in that: it includes: a dispersing step of dispersing a conductive support in a solution; a loading step of dropping a platinum-salt solution, a base-metal-salt solution and an iridium-salt solution to the resulting dispersion liquid, thereby loading respective metallic salts on the conductive support as hydroxides under an alkaline condition; and an alloying step of heating the conductive support with metallic hydroxides loaded in a reducing atmosphere to reduce them, thereby alloying them.

Production process of electrode catalyst for fuel cell

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Yousuke Horiuchi