A facile and general strategy for the synthesis of porous flowerlike Pt-based nanocrystals as effective electrocatalysts for alcohol oxidation

In this paper, porous flowerlike Pt-based (Pt, PdPt, RhPt and RhPdPt) nanocrystals were successfully achieved by a simple, economic, environmentally friendly route under the same synthetic conditions at 85 °C. The electrocatalytic properties of these flowerlike Pt-based nanocrystals toward alcohols...

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Published inNanoscale Vol. 8; no. 31; pp. 14705 - 14710
Main Authors Huang, Da-Bing, Yuan, Qiang, He, Pei-Lei, Wang, Kai, Wang, Xun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 21.08.2016
Subjects
Alcohols
Catalysis
Catalysts
Nanocrystals
Nanostructure
Oxidation
Platinum
Strategy
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Summary:In this paper, porous flowerlike Pt-based (Pt, PdPt, RhPt and RhPdPt) nanocrystals were successfully achieved by a simple, economic, environmentally friendly route under the same synthetic conditions at 85 °C. The electrocatalytic properties of these flowerlike Pt-based nanocrystals toward alcohols (glycol, glycerol, methanol and ethanol) oxidation were investigated and they displayed enhanced catalytic performance compared with commercial Pt black. Among them, porous Pd45.5Pt54.5 nanoflowers showed the best catalytic performance with significant mass activity and long-term stability. More importantly, the current synthesis strategy can be easily amplified to gram-scale production.
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ISSN:2040-3364
2040-3372
DOI:10.1039/c6nr04927c