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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2018
Applicant:
Showa Denko K.k., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SHOWA DENKO K.K., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 4/90 (2006.01); H01M 8/1004 (2016.01); H01M 8/1018 (2016.01); H01M 4/86 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 4/90 (2013.01); H01M 8/1004 (2013.01); H01M 2004/8689 (2013.01); H01M 2008/1095 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided are an oxygen reduction catalyst having a high electrode potential under a fuel cell operating environment, an electrode containing the oxygen reduction catalyst, a membrane electrode assembly in which a cathode is the electrode, and a fuel cell including the membrane electrode assembly. The oxygen reduction catalyst used here contains cobalt, sulfur, and oxygen as elements, has a CoS hexagonal structure in powder X-ray diffractometry, and having an S—Co/S—O peak area ratio of 2.1 to 8.9 in an S2p spectrum in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis.