Proceedings of nanoGe Fall Meeting19 (NFM19)
Publication date: 18th July 2019
Ni-Ti Porous electrodes for electrochemical applications
Nihal Guenani,1 Mariam Barawi,2 Ignacio J. Villar-García, 2 Víctor A. de la Peña O´Shea2 and Antonio Guerrero1*
1 Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, 12006 Castelló, Spain.
2 Photoactivated process Unit. IMDEA Energy Institute, Avda. Ramón de la Sagra, 3, 28937, Mostoles, Madrid, Spain.
Email: aguerrer@uji.es
25 June 2019
Abstract
The hydrogen rising economy is demanding active and durable electrocatalysts based on low-cost, earth abundant materials for water electrolysis and other electrochemical applications. Green metallurgy offers the possibility to synthese porous materials for a large number of applications.1 In this work, Ti and Ni electrodes are prepared from powders under a wide range of conditions and are used as working elecrodes in the oxygen evolution reaction and as counterelectrode in the CO2 reduction reaction. The main purpose of this research project is to develop stable electrodes with a high concentration of active sites at the surface that can reduce the reaction overpotential.