%0 Journal Article %A Wenjing ZHANG %A Jing LI %A Zidong WEI %T Strategies for tuning porous structures of air electrode in fuel cells %D 2020 %R 10.11949/0438-1157.20200750 %J CIESC Journal %P 4553-4574 %V 71 %N 10 %X

A fuel cell is a device that converts chemical energy into electrical energy. The design of the catalytic layer of the air electrode must not only include abundant and easily accessible reactive sites, but also have highly connected electrons, protons, and reactant and product mass transfer channels.Thus the electrodes should hold specific three-dimensional geometrical structures and well-arranged functional channels to ensure accessibility of the active sites and continuous electrochemical reaction. Recently, a range of strategies have been reported to construct various porous structures for electrocatalysts of oxygen reduction reaction, including templating method, high temperature induced phase transition method, combined templating and phase transition method, and the pore-making method based on metal-organic-framework materials. The latest progresses in this field are reviewed in this article.

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