Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 196, Issue 4, Pages 1723-1729Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.10.016
Keywords
Methanol; Fuel cells; Mesoporous; PtRu alloys; Catalyst
Funding
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica [PICT Start Up 35403, PICT 34518]
- CONICET [PIP 5977]
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Mesoporous Pt and Pt/Ru catalysts with 2D-hexagonal mesostructure were synthesized using a triblock poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(propylene oxide)-b-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymer (Pluronic F127 (R)) template on a gold support Large electrochemical surface areas were observed for the catalysts prepared at high overpotentials Compared to the Pt catalyst the Pt/Ru alloy containing 3 at% of Ru exhibited lower onset potential and more than three times the limit mass activity for methanol oxidation This behavior is assigned to the larger pore size of the mesoporous Pt and Pt/Ru catalysts obtained with this template that seems to improve the methanol accessibility to the active sites compared to those obtained using lyotropic liquid crystals (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved
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