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TURKISH JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, vol.46, no.6, pp.2102-2111, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
In this study, Pd/C, Cu/C, and a series of PdCu/C bimetallic electrocatalysts were prepared by microwave-assisted modified
polyol method to determine glycerol electrooxidation reaction (GOR) activities. The effect of microwave duration on catalyst structure
and GOR activity was investigated on PdCu/C bimetallic catalysts. Also, a commercial Pd/C (com-Pd/C) was used to compare catalytic
activities with prepared samples. Electrocatalysts were characterized by using X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Inductively Coupled Plasma
Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES), and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) analyses. In addition, the activity and
stability of electrocatalysts for GOR were examined by using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and chronoamperometry (CA). In XRD results,
the formation of PdCu alloy structure was observed successfully in all bimetallic catalysts. It was found that the PdCu electrocatalyst
with microwave duration of 150 s (PdCu150) was exhibited homogeneous dispersion in TEM images. The particle size of 6.45 nm for
PdCu150 was identified from TEM. Furthermore, the performance results were indicated that PdCu150 has the highest activity (36.02
mA/cm2) and stability compared to Pd/C (8.56 mA/cm2), and com-Pd/C (10.23 mA/cm2) in glycerol electrooxidation.