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Record W4396742794 · doi:10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.109125

Transition metal oxide catalytic abilities for fuel cell applications: Density functional theory (DFT) studies

2024· article· en· W4396742794 on OpenAlex
Salaminah Bonolo Boshoman, O.S. Fatoba, Olawale Olaoluwa Dada, Tien‐Chien Jen

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Bibliographic record

VenueMaterials Today Communications · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicElectrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of AlbertaUniversity of Johannesburg
KeywordsMaterials scienceDensity functional theoryCatalysisTransition metalOxideFuel cellsChemical physicsMetalNanotechnologyPhysical chemistryChemical engineeringInorganic chemistryComputational chemistryMetallurgyOrganic chemistry

Abstract

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Because of its heavy reliance on fossil fuels, the world's existing energy supply releases pollutants into the atmosphere. Researchers have conducted extensive studies on greener energy sources, particularly fuel cell technology, which generates power from electrochemical energy while emitting minimal carbon. But there are obstacles to fuel cell efficiency and commercialization, such as the slow oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and the expensive and unstable platinum (Pt) catalysts used in fuel cell membranes. This work explores the use of tungsten oxide, cobalt, and titanium oxide nanoparticles as inexpensive, active electrocatalysts. Despite extensive research on the monoxides of these metals, their bimetallic compositions when combined with oxygen to function as fuel cell catalysts remain poorly understood. This work evaluates the catalytic capabilities of the crystallographic surfaces of these oxides using Density Functional Theory (DFT) via CASTEP and DMol3, as well as the Adsorption Locator module. These surfaces, which include CoWO4, Co3WO8, and TiWO4, have different levels of stability and reactivity when it comes to absorbing hydrogen and oxygen. This makes them potentially useful for changing the hydrogen oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions in fuel cells.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.333
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
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Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it