
Article Title
Facile design of Au@Pt core-shell nanostructures: Formation of Pt submonolayers with tunable coverage and their applications in electrocatalysis
Keywords
electrocatalysis, platinum, submonolayer, fuel cell
Abstract
ABSTRACT A facile design of Pt nanostructures from submonolayer to monolayer has been realized by ion adsorption–in situ electrochemical reduction on Au nanoparticles supported on multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The as prepared Au@Pt/CNTs catalysts display coverage-specific electrocatalysis. Au@Pt/CNTs with low Pt coverage is inactive towards methanol oxidation whereas it oxidizes formic acid effectively through a direct pathway with mass specific activity 90 times that of a commercial Pt/C catalyst. Due to its inertness to methanol, it shows high performance in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) with high methanol tolerance. In contrast, simply increasing the Pt coverage to above 40% switches the formic acid oxidation process to both direct and indirect catalytic pathways, and also results in high methanol oxidation activity.
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Publisher
Tsinghua University Press
Recommended Citation
Fulin Zheng,Wing-Tak Wong,Ka-Fu Yung, Facile design of Au@Pt core-shell nanostructures: Formation of Pt submonolayers with tunable coverage and their applications in electrocatalysis. NanoRes.2014, 7(3): 410–417