Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 11, Pages 5885-5889Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl3032795
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Surface composition; PtNi octahedra; oxygen reduction reaction; ligand control
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- U.S. DOE EERE through General Motors [DE-EE0000458]
- cluster of excellence in catalysis (UniCat)
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We demonstrate how shape selectivity and optimized surface composition result in exceptional oxygen reduction activity of octahedral PtNi nanoparticles (NPs). The alloy octahedra were obtained by utilizing a facile, completely surfactant-free solvothermal synthesis. We show that the choice of precursor ligands controls the shape, while the reaction time tunes the surface Pt:Ni composition. The 9.5 nm sized PtNi octahedra reached a 10-fold surface area-specific (similar to 3.14 mA/cm(Pt)(2)) as well as an unprecedented 10-fold Pt mass based (similar to 1.45 A/mg(Pt)) activity gain over the state-of-art Pt electrocatalyst, approaching the theoretically predicted limits.
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