Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 1, Issue 46, Pages 14449-14454Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3ta13903d
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- ARO [54709-MS-PCS]
- ONR [N00014-08-1-0985]
- Sloan Research Fellowship
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In this study, we report a facile one-pot strategy towards highly monodisperse and hexagonal shaped bimetallic Pt-Cu nanocrystals with a pure Cu-core coated with a PtCu alloy shell (designated as Cu@PtCu nanocrystals). The Cu@PtCu nanocrystals can be deposited on commercial carbon black evenly and the Cu core in the Cu@PtCu nanocrystal can be selectively etched. The resulting hollow-PtCu/C is a high-performance electro-catalyst for methanol oxidation. It has been demonstrated that the hollow-PtCu/C had a methanol oxidation specific activity of 1.77 mA cm(-2) and a mass activity of 0.889 A mg(Pt)(-1), which are far better than those of solid-PtCu/C and commercial Pt/C catalysts. The hollow-PtCu/C also exhibited better tolerance to poisoning species and is more stable under electrooxidation conditions. The results reported herein suggest that superior catalysts can be developed by engineering the structure/composition of the nanocrystals.
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