Acceleration of Water Electrolysis by Accumulation of Microwave Energy at a Pt Disk Electrode

作者:Kishimoto Fuminao*; Leong Kah Hon; Kawamura Shinichiro; Haneishi Naoto; Tsubaki Shuntaro; Wada Yuji*
来源:Chemistry Letters, 2017, 46(11): 1593-1596.
DOI:10.1246/cl.170686

摘要

The current density of water reduction using a commercial Pt disk electrode was enhanced under 2.45 GHz microwave irradiation. The transitional alternation of temperature distribution was explained with a heat-transfer simulation using COMSOL Multiphysics based on the finite element method. Results show that most of the microwave energy was converted into thermal energy at the vicinity of the Pt electrode. A local high-temperature region enhancing the water-reduction reaction was hence formed.

  • 出版日期2017-11