Size dependent oxygen reduction and methanol oxidation reactions: Catalytic activities of PtCu octahedral nanocrystals

Shlomi Polani, Meital Shviro, Victor Shokhen, Melina Zysler, Andreas Glüsen, Rafal Dunin-Borkowski, Marcelo Carmo, David Zitoun

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Abstract

The synthetic control through colloidal synthesis led to a remarkable increase in platinum mass activity in octahedral nanocrystals with a Pt-rich surface. In this manuscript, we demonstrate that the ratio of surfactant can tune the size of Pt surface enriched PtCu nano-octahedra from 8 to 18 nm with homogeneous size and shape on the carbon support. For the nano-octahedra, the Pt-rich surface has been determined by high-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. The Pt-rich surface exhibits an increasing compressive strain with increasing surface of the {111} facets. With increasing surface, the PtCu nano-octahedra display higher oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity, which however leads to higher onset over-potentials in the methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) and CO-stripping. This observed trend for a series of size-selected nano-octahedra demonstrates the benefits of controlling the strained {111} Pt surface for the ORR and MOR activity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5501-5512
Number of pages12
JournalCatalysis Science and Technology
Volume10
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Aug 2020

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Funding

This work is supported by the Planning & Budgeting Committee of the Council of High Education and the Prime Minister Office of Israel, in the framework of the INREP project.

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Council of High Education
Prime Minister office of Israel

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