Critical Raw material ElectrocatalystS replacement ENabling Designed pOst-2020 PEMFC

Project Information

CRESCENDO

Grant agreement ID: 779366

DOI

10.3030/779366

Project closed

EC signature date 8 December 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 30 September 2021

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost

€ 2 739 602,50

EU contribution

€ 2 739 602,50

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

Report on the ex situ AST peroxide protocol definition and its application to selected benchmark catalysts
Report on site density and turn over frequency of selected benchmark catalysts
Report on the benchmarking of international state-of-the-art (industrial academic) non-PGM catalysts and/or CCMs
Ultra-low PGM anode catalyst with improved resistance to CO poisoning
Final report on WP achievements in terms of activity of new catalysts
Report on cell and system requirements and cell testing protocols
Survey of dissemination activities and final plan for dissemination and exploitation of project results

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Project website
"Organisation of the 2nd conference on “Challenges for Zero Platinum for Oxygen Reduction and Hydrogen Oxidation"""

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Stable, Active, and Methanol-Tolerant PGM-Free Surfaces in an Acidic Medium: Electron Tunneling at Play in Pt/FeNC Hybrid Catalysts for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Cathodes

Author(s): Tomasz Kosmala, Nicolas Bibent, Moulay Tahar Sougrati, Goran Dražić, Stefano Agnoli, Frédéric Jaouen, Gaetano Granozzi
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 10/14, 2020, Page(s) 7475-7485, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01288

Deactivation, reactivation and super-activation of Fe-N/C oxygen reduction electrocatalysts: Gas sorption, physical and electrochemical investigation using NO and O2

Author(s): Paul Boldrin, Daniel Malko, Asad Mehmood, Ulrike I. Kramm, Stephan Wagner, Stephen Paul, Natascha Weidler, Anthony Kucernak
Published in: Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Issue 292, 2021, Page(s) 120169, ISSN 0926-3373
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120169

Identification of durable and non-durable FeNx sites in Fe–N–C materials for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Author(s): Jingkun Li, Moulay Tahar Sougrati, Andrea Zitolo, James M. Ablett, Ismail Can Oğuz, Tzonka Mineva, Ivana Matanovic, Plamen Atanassov, Ying Huang, Iryna Zenyuk, Andrea Di Cicco, Kavita Kumar, Laetitia Dubau, Frédéric Maillard, Goran Dražić, Frédéric Jaouen
Published in: Nature Catalysis, Issue 4/1, 2021, Page(s) 10-19, ISSN 2520-1158
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41929-020-00545-2

Understanding Active Sites in Pyrolyzed Fe–N–C Catalysts for Fuel Cell Cathodes by Bridging Density Functional Theory Calculations and 57 Fe Mössbauer Spectroscopy

Author(s): Tzonka Mineva, Ivana Matanovic, Plamen Atanassov, Moulay-Tahar Sougrati, Lorenzo Stievano, Martin Clémancey, Amélie Kochem, Jean-Marc Latour, Frédéric Jaouen
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 9/10, 2019, Page(s) 9359-9371, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b02586

Noncovalent Integration of a Bioinspired Ni Catalyst to Graphene Acid for Reversible Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Oxidation

Author(s): Bertrand Reuillard, Matías Blanco, Laura Calvillo, Nathan Coutard, Ahmed Ghedjatti, Pascale Chenevier, Stefano Agnoli, Michal Otyepka, Gaetano Granozzi, Vincent Artero
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 12/5, 2020, Page(s) 5805-5811, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b18922

Sulfur Doping versus Hierarchical Pore Structure: The Dominating Effect on the Fe–N–C Site Density, Activity, and Selectivity in Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalysis

Author(s): Giorgia Daniel, Marco Mazzucato, Riccardo Brandiele, Laura De Lazzari, Denis Badocco, Paolo Pastore, Tomasz Kosmala, Gaetano Granozzi, Christian Durante
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 13/36, 2021, Page(s) 42693-42705, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c09659

Effects of the induced micro- and meso-porosity on the single site density and turn over frequency of Fe-N-C carbon electrodes for the oxygen reduction reaction

Author(s): Marco Mazzucato, Giorgia Daniel, Asad Mehmood, Tomasz Kosmala, Gaetano Granozzi, Anthony Kucernak, Christian Durante
Published in: Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Issue 291, 2021, Page(s) 120068, ISSN 0926-3373
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120068

Advancements in cathode catalyst and cathode layer design for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Author(s): Yanyan Sun, Shlomi Polani, Fang Luo, Sebastian Ott, Peter Strasser, Fabio Dionigi
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12/1, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25911-x

Highly Graphitized Fe-N-C Electrocatalysts Prepared from Chitosan Hydrogel Frameworks

Author(s): Giorgia Daniel, Tomasz Kosmala, Federico Brombin, Marco Mazzucato, Alessandro Facchin, Maria Chiara Dalconi, Denis Badocco, Paolo Pastore, Gaetano Granozzi, Christian Durante
Published in: Catalysts, Issue 11/3, 2021, Page(s) 390, ISSN 2073-4344
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/catal11030390

Toward Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts for Hydrogen/Air Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Author(s): Frédéric Jaouen, Deborah Jones, Nathan Coutard, Vincent Artero, Peter Strasser, Anthony Kucernak
Published in: Johnson Matthey Technology Review, Issue 62/2, 2018, Page(s) 231-255, ISSN 2056-5135
Publisher: Johnson Matthey plc
DOI: 10.1595/205651318x696828

Accurate Evaluation of Active-Site Density (SD) and Turnover Frequency (TOF) of PGM-Free Metal–Nitrogen-Doped Carbon (MNC) Electrocatalysts using CO Cryo Adsorption

Author(s): Fang Luo, Chang Hyuck Choi, Mathias J.M. Primbs, Wen Ju, Shuang Li, Nathaniel D. Leonard, Arne Thomas, Frédéric Jaouen, Peter Strasser
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 9/6, 2019, Page(s) 4841-4852, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00588

Impact of ionomer structuration on the performance of bio-inspired noble-metal-free fuel cell anodes

Author(s): Nathan Coutard, Bertrand Reuillard, Tran Ngoc Huan, Fabrice Valentino, Reuben T. Jane, Solène Gentil, Eugen S. Andreiadis, Alan Le Goff, Tristan Asset, Frédéric Maillard, Bruno Jousselme, Adina Morozan, Sandrine Lyonnard, Vincent Artero, Pascale Chenevier
Published in: Chem Catalysis, Issue 1/1, 2021, Page(s) 88-105, ISSN 2667-1093
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.checat.2021.01.001

Establishing reactivity descriptors for platinum group metal (PGM)-free Fe–N–C catalysts for PEM fuel cells

Author(s): Mathias Primbs, Yanyan Sun, Aaron Roy, Daniel Malko, Asad Mehmood, Moulay-Tahar Sougrati, Pierre-Yves Blanchard, Gaetano Granozzi, Tomasz Kosmala, Giorgia Daniel, Plamen Atanassov, Jonathan Sharman, Christian Durante, Anthony Kucernak, Deborah Jones, Frédéric Jaouen, Peter Strasser
Published in: Energy & Environmental Science, Issue 13/8, 2020, Page(s) 2480-2500, ISSN 1754-5692
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0ee01013h

Upcycling of polyurethane into iron-nitrogen-carbon electrocatalysts active for oxygen reduction reaction

Author(s): Giorgia Daniel, Tomasz Kosmala, Maria Chiara Dalconi, Luca Nodari, Denis Badocco, Paolo Pastore, Alessandra Lorenzetti, Gaetano Granozzi, Christian Durante
Published in: Electrochimica Acta, Issue 362, 2020, Page(s) 137200, ISSN 0013-4686
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2020.137200

A comparative perspective of electrochemical and photochemical approaches for catalytic H 2 O 2 production

Author(s): Yanyan Sun, Lei Han, Peter Strasser
Published in: Chemical Society Reviews, Issue 49/18, 2020, Page(s) 6605-6631, ISSN 0306-0012
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00458h