期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 3, 期 10, 页码 3824-3830出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am2010515
关键词
nitrogen-doped porous carbon; catalyst; methanol oxidation; fuel cell
资金
- IMRE of A*STAR
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21031005]
N-doped porous carbon nanospheres (PCNs) were prepared by chemical activation of nonporous carbon nanospheres (CNs), which were obtained via carbonization of polypyrrole nanospheres (PNs). The catalysts, PtRu and Pt nanoparticles supported on PCNs and Vulcan XC-72 carbon black, were prepared by ethylene glycol chemical reduction. Transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy were employed to characterize samples. It was found that PCNs containing N function groups possess a large number of micropores. Uniform and well-dispersed Pt and PtRu particles with narrow particle size distribution were observed. The electrooxidation of liquid methanol on these catalysts was investigated at room temperature by cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The results showed that alloy catalyst (Pt(1)Ru(1)/PCN) possessed the highest catalytic activity and better CO tolerance than the other PtRu and Pt-only catalysts; PtRu nanoparticles supported on PCN showed a higher catalytic activity and more stable sustained current than on carbon black XC-72. Compared to commercial Alfa Aesar PtRu catalyst, Pt(1)Ru(1)/PCN reveals an enhanced and durable catalytic activity in methanol oxidation because of the high dispersion of small PtRu nanoparticles and the presence of N species of support PCNs.
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