Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 196, Issue 1, Pages 191-195Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.06.035
Keywords
Pt/carbon nanotube; Heterostructures; Nanostructures; Fuel cell; Catalyst
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20671003, 20971003]
- Chinese Ministry of Education [209060]
- Science and Technological Fund of Anhui Province for Outstanding Youth [10040606Y32]
- Education Department of Anhui Province [2006KJ006TD]
- Program for Innovative Research Team in Anhui Normal University
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The fascinating heterostructure of carbon nanotube-supported metal nanoparticles continues to attract interest for developing electrocatalysts for energy sciences. Here, we report the fabrication of noble metal nanocubes carbon nanotube nanocomposites through an electroless deposition route. The assynthesized carbon nanotubes-supported Pt nanocubes with high active and selective {100} surfaces display excellent electrocatalytic activities towards the oxygen reduction reaction, which can/will replace current/state of the art cathode catalysts in fuel cells, and thereby improve the catalytic performance and utilization efficiency. The methodology presented here could be further extended to fabricate other one-dimensional materials/noble metal nanostructures. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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