The invention relates to a preparation method of a
direct ethanol fuel cell anode catalyst, and belongs to the technical field of
fuel cells. The preparation method is characterized in that glucose isused as a
raw material for preparing carbon spheres used as a carrier, and
manganese dioxide is loaded to replace part of
platinum, and on that basis, the efficient and low-cost catalyst is prepared;and meanwhile,
rare earth elements are doped, so that electrons are easily excited and transferred from a
conduction band, thus
oxygen vacancy is promoted to develop, and the
oxygen vacancy concentration of the catalyst is greatly increased, and as a result, the
ion conductivity is improved; in addition, the
crystal size of the material is reduced due to low synthesizing temperature; the C-C breaking efficiency under low temperature is improved. According to the method, TiO2 and Pt are coordinated to improve the catalyzing performance of the catalyst; and meanwhile, a CO type
intermediate product produced by
ethanol oxidizing is easily transferred to the TiO2
nanoparticle surface to be oxidized; the catalyzing activity and stability of the catalyst are improved while the Pt content is decreased; and moreover, the initial potential of the
ethanol starting to oxidize is reduced;
high current density is obtained, and as a result, the fuel
cell performance is improved.