The electrochemical oxidation of 3,7-dimethylxanthine has been studied in the pH range 2.1–10.7 at pyrolytic graphite, platinum and glassy carbon electrodes. The electrooxidation of 3,7-dimethylxanthine at solid electrodes proceeds in a single 4e, 4H+ pH dependent step to give a diimine species which decomposes in chemical followup steps. The UV absorbing intermediate generated during electroox...

Structure-controlled Pt-based catalysts have been known to exhibit improved electrocatalytic activities due to particularly modulated surface structures favorable for alcohol electrooxidation. We report PtNi alloy dendrite structure for formic acid electrooxidation prepared by a thermal decomposition method. The Pt-Ni nanodendrites display 3-dimentional nanostructure and homogeneous alloy forma...

Modification of conventional Pt/C electrocatalyst with silicomolybdic acid (SiMoA) was performed using electrochemical cyclic voltammetry method. The modified and unmodified catalysts were tested under identical conditions for electrooxidation of CO, methanol, and ethanol. In the CO-stripping experiments, the modified catalyst was characterized by significant shifts (80 and 60 mV) to lower onse...

Molybdenum catalysts carburized in CH4/H2 exhibited activity for methanol electrooxidation (MOR) in half cell measurements. Mo carburized at 773 and 873 K showed high electrooxidation of methanol compared to carburization at other temperatures. Catalyst characterization was carried out by XRD and TPC. The active carbide species responsible to facilitate the MOR was the Mo oxycarbide and –Mo2C s...

To determine the influence of electrochemical polarization of PtRu/C catalysts on methanol electrooxidation, this work investigated methanol electrooxidation on as received and different electrochemically polarized PtRu/C catalysts. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to characterize the redox state of PtRu/C after different electrochemical polarization. The m...

Poly 8-(3-acetylimino-6-methyl-2,4-dioxopyran)-1-aminonaphthalene (PAMDAN) films were electrodeposited on platinum electrode (Pt), forming PAMDAN/Pt modified electrode, to study its utility in electrooxidation of iodide ion. The electrooxidation process was investigated by cyclic voltammetry. The effects of different factors e.g. scan rate, iodide ion concentration, film thickness and acid conc...

Simultaneous degradation of sulfadiazine, naproxen, diclofenac, ketoprofen and ibuprofen from drinking water was investigated by different technologies including photolysis, electrooxidation, photo-electrooxidation, zero-valent iron their combinations. All oxidation were very effective for the all drugs under anoxic conditions efficiency decreased oxic conditions. Results also revealed that can...

In this article, we characterized tungsten oxide-decorated carbon-supported PtIr nanoparticles and tested it for the electrooxidation reactions of ethylene glycol and ethanol. Phase and morphological evaluation of the proposed electrocatalytic materials are investigated employing various characterization techniques including X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). El...

Pt and PtSn intermetallic nanoparticle (NP) catalysts were grown directly on various reduced graphene oxide (rGO) supports and were characterized by a combination of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic (XPS), Raman microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies. Electrochemical CO stripping and rotating disk electrochemical (RDE) experiments showed ...

Nafion (Nf)-thionine (Th) ion-pair as dispersant and second catalyst has been introduced in Pt catalyst for methanol electrooxidation and the resulting catalyst supported on carbon (NfThPt/C) has been investigated by electrochemical method. For the same loading mass of Pt, the peak current density of methanol oxidation on the NfThPt/C/graphite electrode is about 7.25 and 3.04 times as high as t...