Ultrafine jagged platinum nanowires enable ultrahigh mass activity for the oxygen reduction reaction
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- 16 December 2016
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- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 354 (6318), 1414-1419
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf9050
Abstract
An activity lift for platinum: Platinum is an excellent but expensive catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), which is critical for fuel cells. Alloying platinum with other metals can create shells of platinum on cores of less expensive metals, which increases its surface exposure, and compressive strain in the layer can also boost its activity (see the Perspective by Stephens et al. ). Bu et al. produced nanoplates—platinum-lead cores covered with platinum shells—that were in tensile strain. These nanoplates had high and stable ORR activity, which theory suggests arises from the strain optimizing the platinum-oxygen bond strength. Li et al. optimized both the amount of surface-exposed platinum and the specific activity. They made nanowires with a nickel oxide core and a platinum shell, annealed them to the metal alloy, and then leached out the nickel to form a rough surface. The mass activity was about double the best reported values from previous studies. Science , this issue p. 1410 , p. 1414 ; see also p. 1378Keywords
Funding Information
- DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Science and Engineering (DE-SC0008055)
- NSF (CHE-1508692, CBET-1512759)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51525102, 51390475, 51371102)
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