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NANOSCALE
Volume 9, Issue 9, Pages 2963-2968Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7nr00193b
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21361005, 21571038, 21433008, 91545203, 91127040, 21221062]
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces [201520]
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The development of effective electrocatalysts with enhanced activity and stability for both the anode and the cathode reaction in fuel cells still remains a challenge. Here, we report a one-pot route to prepare monodispersed, uniform sub-5.0 nm PtCu alloy polyhedra with a narrow size distribution. These PtCu alloy polyhedra exhibit enhanced electrocatalytic activity for both cathode and anode reactions as compared to the commercial Pt/C catalyst under alkaline conditions. The specific activity and mass activity on Pt68Cu32 nanoalloys are 15 and 2.8 times that on Pt/C catalyst toward oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), respectively. And the peak current density and mass activity on Pt68Cu32 nanoalloys are 11.8 and 2.12 times that on Pt/C catalyst toward ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR), respectively. Furthermore, the as-synthesized Pt68Cu32 nanoalloys have much higher stability than commercial Pt/C black for both ORR and EOR. These experimental results show an effective approach to the development of monodispersed, sub-5.0 nm PtCu nanoalloys as bifunctional electrocatalysts for both the cathode and the anode reaction in fuel cells.
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