期刊
ACS CATALYSIS
卷 4, 期 6, 页码 1859-1867出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cs500147p
关键词
ethanol oxidation reaction; fuel cells; electrochemistry; electrocatalysis; HE-XRD; PDF analysis; in situ FTIR
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [STR 596/3-1]
- US-DOE [DESC0006877, DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- NSF CAREER program [0955922]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0955922] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Novel insights in the synthesis-structure-catalytic activity relationships of nanostructured trimetallic Pt-Rh-Sn electrocatalysts for the electrocatalytic oxidation of ethanol are reported. In particular, we identify a novel single-phase Rh-doped Pt-Sn Niggliite mineral phase as the source of catalytically active sites for ethanol oxidation; we discuss its morphology, composition, chemical surface state, and the detailed 3D atomic arrangement using high-energy (HE-XRD), atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The intrinsic ethanol oxidation activity of the active Niggliite phase exceeded those of earlier reports, lending support to the notion that the atomic-scale neighborhood of Pt, Rh, and Sn is conducive to the emergence of active surface catalytic sites under reaction conditions. In situ mechanistic Fourier transform infrared (in situ FTIR) analysis confirms an active 12 electron oxidation reaction channel to CO2 at electrode potentials as low as 450 mV/RHE, demonstrating the favorable efficiency of the PtRhSn Niggliite phase for C-C bond splitting.
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