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ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 1468-1474Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cs501449y
Keywords
methanol fuel cells; electrocatalysis; methanol oxidation reaction; one-dimensional structure; platinum-ruthenium
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- U.S. Department of Energy through the Fuel Cell Technologies Program [DE-AC36-08-NA25396]
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
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The sluggish kinetics of methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) is a major barrier to the commercialization of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). In this work, we report a facile synthesis of platinum-ruthenium nanotubes (PtRuNTs) and platinum-ruthenium-coated copper nanowires (PtRu/CuNWs) by galvanic displacement reaction using copper nanowires as a template. The PtRu compositional effect on MOR is investigated; the optimum Pt/Ru bulk atomic ratio is about 4 and surface atomic ratio about 1 for both PtRuNTs and PtRu/CuNWs. Enhanced specific MOR activities are observed on both PtRuNTs and PtRu/CuNWs compared with the benchmark commercial carbon-supported PtRu catalyst (PtRu/C, Hispec 12100). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) reveals a larger extent of electron transfer from Ru to Pt on PtRu/CuNWs, which may lead to a modification of the d-band center of Pt and consequently a weaker bonding of CO (the poisoning intermediate) on Pt and a higher MOR activity on PtRu/CuNWs.
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