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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 116, Issue 29, Pages 15297-15306Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp306034d
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
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In this report, we examine the composition- and size-dependent performance in hierarchical Pd1-xAux nanowires (NWs) encapsulated with a conformal Pt monolayer shell (Pt similar to Pd1-xAux). The ultrathin Pd1-xAux NWs are prepared by a solution-based method wherein the chemical composition can be readily and predictably controlled. Importantly, as-prepared Pd9Au NWs maintain significantly enhanced oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity (0.40 mA/cm(2)), as compared with elemental Pd NVV/C (0.12 mA/cm(2)) and Pt nanoparticles (NP)/C (0.20 mA/cm(2)), respectively. After the deposition of a Pt monolayer, a volcano-type composition dependence is observed in the ORR activity of the Pt similar to Pd1-xAux NWs as the Au content is increased from 0 to 30% with the activity of the Pt similar to Pd9Au NWs (0.98 mA/cm(2), 2.54 A/mg(pt)), representing the optimum performance. We note that the platinum group metal activity of the ultrathin 2 nm NWs (0.64 A/mg) is significantly enhanced as compared with that of analogous 50 nm NWs (0.16 A/mg) and commercial Pt NP/C (0.1-0.2 A/mg), thereby highlighting a distinctive size-dependent enhancement in NW performance.
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