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Active layers of electrocatalysts are prepared by the ion-beam assisted deposition (IBAD) of platinum onto carbon-based AVCarb® Carbon Fiber Paper P50 and Toray Carbon Fiber Paper TGP-H-060 T supports and Nafion® N 115 polymer membrane electrolyte in the mode where the deposited metal ions are used as ions assisting the deposition process. Metal deposition and mixing of the deposited layer with the substrate under an accelerating voltage of 10 kV by the same metal ions are carried out from a neutral fraction of metal vapor and the ionized plasma of a pulsed vacuum-arc discharge, respectively. The composition and microstructure of the surface layers obtained are studied by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron-probe microanalysis (EPMA), and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis. The platinum concentration in the layers is (0.5–1.5) × 1016 at/cm2. The prepared electrocatalysts exhibit activity in the process of the electrochemical oxidation of methanol and ethanol, which form the basis for the principle of operation of low temperature fuel cells (direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) and direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFC)).
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Original Russian Text © V.V. Poplavsky, A.V. Dorozhko, V.G. Matys, 2017, published in Poverkhnost’, 2017, No. 3, pp. 52–58.
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Poplavsky, V.V., Dorozhko, A.V. & Matys, V.G. Ion-beam formation of electrocatalysts for fuel cells with polymer membrane electrolyte. J. Surf. Investig. 11, 326–332 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1027451017020124
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