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Li S, Ajmal S, Zhou X, Lu M, Li X, Sun Z, Liu S, Zhu M, Li P. Mixed-Dimensional Partial Dealloyed PtCuBi/C as High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Methanol Oxidation with Enhanced CO Tolerance. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024; 20:e2309226. [PMID: 38126680 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202309226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Developing efficient electrocatalysts for methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) is crucial in advancing the commercialization of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). Herein, carbon-supported 0D/2D PtCuBi/C (0D/2D PtCuBi/C) catalysts are fabricated through a solvothermal method, followed by a partial electrochemical dealloying process to form a novel mixed-dimensional electrochemically dealloyed PtCuBi/C (0D/2D D-PtCuBi/C) catalysts. Benefiting from distinctive mixed-dimensional structure and composition, the as-obtained 0D/2D D-PtCuBi/C catalysts possess abundant accessible active sites. The introduction of Cu as a water-activating element weakens the COads, and oxophilic metal Bi facilitates the OHads, thereby enhancing its tolerance to CO poisoning and promoting MOR activity. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (XAFS) collectively reveal the electron transfer from Cu and Bi to Pt, the electron-enrichment effect induced by dealloying, and the strong interactions among Pt-M (Cu, Pt, and Bi) multi-active sites, which improve the tuning of the electronic structure and enhancement of electron transfer ability. Impressively, the optimized 0D/2D D-PtCuBi/C catalysts exhibit the superior mass activity (MA) of 17.68 A mgPt -1 for MOR, which is 14.86 times higher than that of commercial Pt/C. This study offers a proposed strategy for Pt-based alloy catalysts, enabling their use as efficient anodic materials in fuel cell applications.
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- Sichen Li
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China
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Abdelhafiz A, Choi JI, Zhao B, Cho J, Ding Y, Soule L, Jang SS, Liu M, Alamgir FM. Catalysis Sans Catalyst Loss: The Origins of Prolonged Stability of Graphene-Metal-Graphene Sandwich Architecture for Oxygen Reduction Reactions. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2023; 10:e2304616. [PMID: 37863808 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202304616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2023] [Revised: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023]
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Over the past decades, the design of active catalysts has been the subject of intense research efforts. However, there has been significantly less deliberate emphasis on rationally designing a catalyst system with a prolonged stability. A major obstacle comes from the ambiguity behind how catalyst degrades. Several degradation mechanisms are proposed in literature, but with a lack of systematic studies, the causal relations between degradation and those proposed mechanisms remain ambiguous. Here, a systematic study of a catalyst system comprising of small particles and single atoms of Pt sandwiched between graphene layers, GR/Pt/GR, is studied to unravel the degradation mechanism of the studied electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction(ORR). Catalyst suffers from atomic dissolution under ORR harsh acidic and oxidizing operation voltages. Single atoms trapped in point defects within the top graphene layer on their way hopping through toward the surface of GR/Pt/GR architecture. Trapping mechanism renders individual Pt atoms as single atom catalyst sites catalyzing ORR for thousands of cycles before washed away in the electrolyte. The GR/Pt/GR catalysts also compare favorably to state-of-the-art commercial Pt/C catalysts and demonstrates a rational design of a hybrid nanoarchitecture with a prolonged stability for thousands of operation cycles.
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- Ali Abdelhafiz
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 771 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 771 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 771 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 771 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 771 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 771 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 771 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 771 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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Abdelhafiz A, Tanvir ANM, Zeng M, Wang B, Ren Z, Harutyunyan AR, Zhang Y, Li J. Pulsed Light Synthesis of High Entropy Nanocatalysts with Enhanced Catalytic Activity and Prolonged Stability for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2023:e2300426. [PMID: 37088797 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202300426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Revised: 03/18/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The ability to synthesize compositionally complex nanostructures rapidly is a key to high-throughput functional materials discovery. In addition to being time-consuming, a majority of conventional materials synthesis processes closely follow thermodynamics equilibria, which limit the discovery of new classes of metastable phases such as high entropy oxides (HEO). Herein, a photonic flash synthesis of HEO nanoparticles at timescales of milliseconds is demonstrated. By leveraging the abrupt heating and cooling cycles induced by a high-power-density xenon pulsed light, mixed transition metal salt precursors undergo rapid chemical transformations. Hence, nanoparticles form within milliseconds with a strong affinity to bind to the carbon substrate. Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity measurements of the synthesized nanoparticles demonstrate two orders of magnitude prolonged stability at high current densities, without noticeable decay in performance, compared to commercial IrO2 catalyst. This superior catalytic activity originates from the synergistic effect of different alloying elements mixed at a high entropic state. It is found that Cr addition influences surface activity the most by promoting higher oxidation states, favoring optimal interaction with OER intermediates. The proposed high-throughput method opens new pathways toward developing next-generation functional materials for various electronics, sensing, and environmental applications, in addition to renewable energy conversion.
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- Ali Abdelhafiz
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 79409, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
- Honda Research Institute, USA, Inc. , San Jose, CA, 95134, USA
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- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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Zhou S, Liao W, Wang Z, Zhou Q, Long J, Chen M, Wang Q. Surfactant-driven shape evolution to sub-3 nm Pt-rich Pt3Ni dodecahedrons as efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction. J Taiwan Inst Chem Eng 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2022.104615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Wu H, Zhong H, Pan Y, Li H, Peng Y, Yang L, Luo S, Banham D, Zeng J. Highly stable and active Pt-skinned octahedral PtCu/C for oxygen reduction reaction. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.130341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Li Q, Wan T, Yang X, Xiang D, Yuan X, Sun Z, Li P, Zhu M. Low Pt-Doped Crystalline/Amorphous Heterophase Pd 12P 3.2 Nanowires as Efficient Catalysts for Methanol Oxidation. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:12466-12472. [PMID: 35894934 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pd-based catalysts are attractive anodic electrocatalysts for direct methanol fuel cells owing to their low cost and natural abundance. However, they suffer from sluggish reaction kinetic and insufficient electroactivity in methanol oxidation reaction (MOR). In this work, we developed a facile one-pot approach to fabricate low Pt-doped Pd12P3.2 nanowires with crystalline/amorphous heterophase (termed Pt-Pd12P3.2 NWs) for MOR. The unique crystalline/amorphous heterophase structures promote the catalytic activity by the plentiful active sites at the phase boundaries and/or interfaces and the synergistic effect between different phases. Moreover, the incorporation of trace Pt into Pd lattices modifies the electronic structure and improves the electron transfer ability. Therefore, the obtained Pt-Pd12P3.2 NWs display significantly enhanced electrocatalytic performance toward MOR with the mass activity of 2.35 A mgPd+Pt-1, which is 9.0, 2.9, and 2.0 times higher than those of the commercial Pd/C (0.26 A mgPd-1), Pd12P3.2 NWs (0.82 A mgPd-1), and commercial Pt/C (1.19 A mgPt-1). The high mass activity enables the Pt-Pd12P3.2 NWs to be the promising Pd-based catalysts for MOR.
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- Qiuyu Li
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for In-organic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, P. R. China.,Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for In-organic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, P. R. China.,Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for In-organic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, P. R. China.,Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for In-organic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for In-organic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for In-organic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for In-organic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, P. R. China.,Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for In-organic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui, P. R. China.,Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, P. R. China
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Platinum-Containing Nanoparticles on N-Doped Carbon Supports as an Advanced Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Catalysts 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/catal12040414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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New highly active electrocatalysts were obtained by depositing bimetallic Pt-Cu nanoparticles on the surface of an N-doped carbon support. The structural–morphological characteristics and electrochemical behavior of the catalysts were studied. Using current stress testing protocols, their resistance to degradation was assessed in comparison with that of a commercial Pt/C material. A combined approach to catalyst synthesis that consists in alloying platinum with copper and doping the support makes it possible to obtain catalysts with a uniform distribution of bimetallic nanoparticles on the carbon surface. The obtained catalysts exhibit high activity and durability.
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Dehghani Sanij F, Balakrishnan P, Su H, Khotseng L, Xu Q. Fabrication of polyoxometalate-modified palladium–nickel/reduced graphene oxide alloy catalysts for enhanced oxygen reduction reaction activity. RSC Adv 2021; 11:39118-39129. [PMID: 35492496 PMCID: PMC9044417 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra06936e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A novel nanocatalyst, polyoxometalate-modified palladium–nickel/reduced graphene oxide (Pd8Ni2/rGO-POM), is prepared and served as an effective ORR nanomaterial in alkaline media.
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- Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town 7535, South Africa
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- Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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