Aplicación de nanopartículas de IrO2-WO3 como material anódico para la Reacción de Evolución de Oxígeno en un medio ácido

The hydrogen is an attractive energy carrier and electrolysis of water is the most efficient to H2 production process. The OER in the anode is the limiting reaction being the case of study. In the present work materials based on IrO2 and WO3 were developed in different mechanical mixing 100, 70:30, 50:50, 30:70, respectively, by means of a mechanical mixture from two chemical reduction syntheses. The IrO2 was obtained by 6.25 mM of IrCl3 dissolved in isopropyl alcohol by adjusting the pH with 1M NaOH and a 0.5 mol NH4OH reductant was applied by adjusting a basic pH of 13. The obtained precursor was filtered and calcined at 400 ° C for 1hr. WO3 was obtained from 10mM WCl6 dissolved in isopropyl alcohol and polyethylene glycol, generating a precursor of W (OH)x followed by a calcination process at 500 ° C for 1hr. The material was characterized by electrochemical techniques of CV, LV and EIS. The IrO2-WO3 (50:50) material has lower activation energy of overpotential at room temperature, and a maximum current density close to 20 mA /cm2 at 1.8V vs Hg/Hg2SO4.