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GREEN ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 375-383Publisher
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gee.2018.06.003
Keywords
Cyanogel reduction; Reduced graphene oxide; PdNi alloy nanocrystals; Oxygen reduction reaction; Methanol oxidation reaction
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21473111]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [GK201701007]
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The research on electrocatalysts with relatively lower price than Pt and excellent electrocatalytic performance for the cathode oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and anode methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) is vital for the development of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). In this work, we develop a cyanogel-reduction method to synthesize reduced graphene oxide (rGO) supported highly dispersed PdNi alloy nanocrystals (PdNi/rGO) with high alloying degree and tunable Pd/Ni ratio. The large specific surface area and the d-band center downshift of Pd result in excellent activity of Pd4Ni1/rGO nanohybrids for the ORR. The modification of Pd electronic structure can facilitate the adsorption of CH3OH on Pd surface and the highly oxophilic property of Ni can eliminate/mitigate the COads intermediates poisoning, which make PdNi/ rGO nanohybrids possess superior MOR activity. In addition, rGO improve the stability of PdNi alloy nanocrystals for the ORR and MOR. Due to high activity and stability for the ORR and MOR, PdNi/rGO nanohybrids are promising to be an available bifunctional electrocatalyst in DMFCs. (C) 2018, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V.
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