Abstract: Titanium oxide (usually titanium dioxide) catalyst support particles are doped for electronic conductivity and formed with surface area-enhancing pores for use, for example, in electro-catalyzed electrodes on proton exchange membrane electrodes in hydrogen/oxygen fuel cells. Suitable compounds of titanium and a dopant are dispersed with pore-forming particles in a liquid medium. The compounds are deposited as a precipitate or sol on the pore-forming particles and heated to transform the deposit into crystals of dopant-containing titanium dioxide. If the heating has not decomposed the pore-forming particles, they are chemically removed from the, now pore-enhanced, the titanium dioxide particles.

Abstract: An oxygen reducing electrode for a fuel cell comprises carbon particles as support for catalyst particles. The carbon particles are coated with smaller particles of a metal oxide and/or metal phosphate (for example, TiO2 particles) to impede destructive oxidation (corrosion) of the carbon particles while permitting suitable electrical conductivity between the carbon particles. The catalyst is carried on the smaller particle-coated carbon particles. Titanium dioxide particles can be dispersed on carbon particles suspended in a liquid medium by ultrasonic decomposition of a suitable titanium precursor compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of making a noble metal catalyst, where the noble metal is distributed on the surface of special composite carrier particles. Nanometer sized oxide particles are first dry coated by an impact mixing process on the surface of larger alumina particles. In general, this dry coating process coats the nanometer sized particles on the surface of the alumina particles. A suitable solution of noble metal(s) compound is then soaked on the surface of the composite carrier particles. Ultimately, the noble metal compound is decomposed by calcining and noble metal particles dispersed with large effective surface area on the composite carrier particles. The resultant catalyst structure improves catalyst performance while making efficient and effective use of the expensive noble metal.