	US 12,230,809 B2
	Nickel-based catalyst for fuel cell anode
Nino Borchtchoukova, Modiin (IL); Yair Haim Wijsboom, Kiryat Ono (IL); Gennadi Finkelshtain, Modiin (IL); Margarita Valentinova Gabrovska, Sofia (BG); and Dimitrinka Aleksieva Nikolova, Sofia (BG)
Assigned to GENCELL LTD., Petah Tikva (IL)
Appl. No. 17/769,410
Filed by GENCELL LTD., Petah Tikva (IL)
PCT Filed Oct. 15, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/055738 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 15, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/076730, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/916,837, filed on Oct. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0128472 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. H01M 4/90 (2006.01); H01M 4/88 (2006.01); H01M 8/083 (2016.01)

CPC H01M 4/9041 (2013.01) [H01M 4/8846 (2013.01); H01M 4/9083 (2013.01); H01M 4/8817 (2013.01); H01M 4/9075 (2013.01); H01M 8/083 (2013.01); Y02E 60/50 (2013.01)]

20 Claims

1. A catalyst for an anode of a fuel cell, wherein the catalyst comprises, in at least partially reduced form, (i) nickel and (ii) molybdenum and, optionally, (iii) rhenium and/or (iv) at least one transition metal which is different from nickel, molybdenum and rhenium, supported on (v) electrically conductive carbon modified with one or more elements selected from the lanthanides, yttrium, tin, and titanium, a weight ratio (i):((ii)+(iii)+(iv)) being at least 2:1.