Safe and efficient hydrogen generation and storage has received much attention in recent years. Herein, a commercial 5 wt% Pd/C catalyst has been investigated for the catalytic, additive-free decomposition of formic acid at mild conditions, and the experimental parameters affecting the process systematically have been investigated and optimised. The 5 wt% Pd/C catalyst exhibited a remarkable 99...

In the present work, the electrooxidation of formic acid and formaldehyde; potentially important fuels for future fuel cells, was investigated on the Fe3O4@Pt core-shell nanoparticles/carbon-ceramic electrode (Fe3O4@Pt/CCE). The Fe3O4@Pt nanoparticles were prepared via a simple and fast chemical method and their surface morph...

Section 2 FT-IR spectra of the NG/AuNPs, NG/AuNPs/FDH and NG/AuNPs/laccase Section 3 Control experiments at different electrode. Section 4 CV of the formic acid oxidation Section 5 Polarization curves of the NG/AuNPs/FDH electrode and G/AuNPs/FDH electrode Section 6 Crossover between the bioanode and biocathode Section 7 Dependence of power density on the formic acid concentration for EBFC Sect...

The direct formic acid fuel cell is an emerging energy conversion device for which palladium is considered as the state-of-the-art anode catalyst. In this communication, we show that the activity and stability of palladium for formic acid oxidation can be significantly enhanced using nickel phosphide (Ni(2)P) nanoparticles as a cocatalyst. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) reveals a strong...

the effects of probiotic (protexin) and formic acid were studied on humoral and cellular immunity in 200 cobb broiler chicks in a completely randomized design of with 4 treatments and 5 replications (10 observations per replicate). control group (c) did not receive any other than the base treatment. the chicks in the second (p), third (f) and forth (p+f) groups were fed with feed, which contain...

We proposed a facile film treatment with formic acid to enhance the conductivity of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) by 4 orders of magnitude. The effect of formic acid concentration on conductivity was investigated; conductivity increased fast with increasing concentration up to 10 M and then increased slightly, the highest conductivity being 2050 S cm(-1) u...

An overview of our recent studies dealing with infrared-induced conformational interconversion of carboxylic acids isolated in rare-gas matrices is presented. Extensive rotational photoisomerization studies have been performed on formic acid, which is the simplest organic acid enabling this kind of processes. Formic acid has two conformers and interconversion between them can be induced by vibr...