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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 40, Issue 10, Pages 8681-8695Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6nj00302h
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- MHRD, India
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A simple approach and surfactant free methodology has been employed to synthesize high surface area core/shell nano engineered electrocatalysts for fuel cell applications. Pt@PdM3/C (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) core/shell electrocatalysts were synthesized in a two stage process i.e. firstly a high surface area core was synthesised by simple borohydride reduction in ethylene glycol using a specially assembled experimental setup and then Pt was coated on the PdM3 core surface by the polyol reduction method. The PdM3 core was maintained in a 1 : 3 atomic ratio and the Pt shell on PdM3 was fixed at a 1 : 3 weight ratio. XRD results confirm the covering of the PdM3 core with the Pt shell. HR-TEM images show the distribution, shape and size of particles in high surface area carbon. The compositional studies were analyzed by SEM-EDAX and ICP-OES experiments. Electrochemical measurements were done by cyclic voltammetry, RDE and RRDE techniques. CV patterns confirmed the presence of Pt on the surface of the PdM3 core. The Pt@PdM3/C electrocatalyst showed an enhanced ECSA value compared to commercial Pt/C. RDE and RRDE techniques revealed that Pt@PdM3/C core/shell nano structures follow a four electron transfer mechanism. Among all the electrocatalysts, the mass activity of Pt@PdNi3/C is 10 fold higher than Pt/C and the specific activity of Pt@PdNi3/C is around 20 fold higher than Pt/C. Pt@PdNi3/C shows better enhancement in half wave potential (E-1/2) than others. The real time cell performance of the electrocatalysts revealed that Pt@ PdM3/C (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) core/shell nano engineered electrocatalysts show higher performance than commercial Pt/C.
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