Uniform Pt nanoparticles supported on urchin-like mesoporous TiO2 hollow spheres as stable electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 10656-10663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suqiong He ◽  
Chuxin Wu ◽  
Zhen Sun ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Rongtao Hu ◽  
...  

Pt/UMTHS exhibited better ORR stability than the commercial Pt/C due to the strong metal support interaction and the effect of spatial restriction from the unique structure.

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (35) ◽  
pp. 23260-23269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Campos-Roldán ◽  
Guadalupe Ramos-Sánchez ◽  
Rosa G. Gonzalez-Huerta ◽  
Jorge R. Vargas García ◽  
Perla B. Balbuena ◽  
...  

Applied Nano ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-318
Author(s):  
Ayyappan Elangovan ◽  
Jiayi Xu ◽  
Archana Sekar ◽  
Sabari Rajendran ◽  
Bin Liu ◽  
...  

Nitrogen doping in carbon materials can modify the employed carbon material’s electronic and structural properties, which helps in creating a stronger metal-support interaction. In this study, the role of nitrogen doping in improving the durability of Pt catalysts supported on a three-dimensional vertically aligned carbon nanofiber (VACNF) array towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) was explored. The nitrogen moieties present in the N-VACNF enhanced the metal-support interaction and contributed to a reduction in the Pt particle size from 3.1 nm to 2.3 nm. The Pt/N-VACNF catalyst showed better durability when compared to Pt/VACNF and Pt/C catalysts with similar Pt loading. DFT calculations validated the increase in the durability of the Pt NPs with an increase in pyridinic N and corroborated the molecular ORR pathway for Pt/N-VACNF. Moreover, the Pt/N-VACNF catalyst was found to have excellent tolerance towards methanol crossover.


Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1196
Author(s):  
Su-Jin Jang ◽  
Yun Chan Kang ◽  
Jin-Su Hyun ◽  
Tae Ho Shin ◽  
Young Wook Lee ◽  
...  

The durability of catalysts in fuel cells is a longstanding issue that needs to be resolved. Catalyst stability of the fuel cell has always been a problem, studies are underway to address them. Herein, to address this issue, we synthesize a hybrid structure consisting of SP carbon (SP) as the graphitic carbon and TiO2 as the metal oxide using a microwave method for use as a support for Pt nanoparticles. Anatase TiO2 and Pt nanoparticles with sizes of ~5 and 3.5 ± 1.4 nm, respectively, are uniformly dispersed on a modified graphitic SP carbon support (Pt-TiO2-SP). This supported Pt catalyst exhibits significantly improves durability in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Furthermore, the Pt-TiO2-SP carbon hybrid catalyst manifests superior electrocatalytic stability and higher onset potential in ORR than those exhibited by Pt-SP carbon without TiO2. Pt-TiO2-SP exhibits an activity loss of less than 68 mV after 5000 electrochemical cycles, whereas an activity loss of ~100 mV is observed for Pt-SP carbon in a stability test. These results suggest that the strong metal–support interaction in TiO2-supported Pt catalyst significantly enhances the activity of Pt nanocatalyst.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaneyuki Taniguchi ◽  
Jhon Lehman Cuya Huaman ◽  
Dausuke Iwata ◽  
Shun Yokoyama ◽  
Takatoshi Matsumoto ◽  
...  

Alloying Pt with transition elements as electrodes in fuel cells has been proposed to solve the CO poisoning effect besides cost-benefit. Consequently, the use of Ni-Pt nanoparticles (NPs) has been...


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 2672-2685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhiyaad Mohamed ◽  
Tobias Binninger ◽  
Patricia J. Kooyman ◽  
Armin Hoell ◽  
Emiliana Fabbri ◽  
...  

Synthesis of Sb–SnO2 supported Pt nanoparticles with an outstanding ECSA for the oxygen reduction reaction.


Author(s):  
D. Rosas-Medellín ◽  
K. Y. Pérez-Salcedo ◽  
D. Morales-Acosta ◽  
F. J. Rodríguez-Varela ◽  
B. Escobar

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