High performance carbon-supported catalysts for fuel cells via phosphonation.

Zhiqiang Xu, Zhigang Qi, Arthur Kaufman

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (7) , 878-9, (2003)

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Abstract

Carbon-supported catalysts were phosphonated using 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid, and the resulting catalysts with largely enhanced proton conductivity performed substantially better than the untreated counterparts in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells.