• 文献标题:   One-step stabilizer-free synthesis of porous bimetallic PdCu nanofinger supported on graphene for highly efficient methanol electro-oxidation
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CUI XX, WANG XS, XU XW, YANG SG, WANG Y
  • 作者关键词:   stabilizerfree synthesi, bimetallic catalyst, porous nanofinger, methanol electrooxidation, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
  • ISSN:   0013-4686 EI 1873-3859
  • 通讯作者地址:   Donghua Univ
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.electacta.2017.11.054
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Labor-saving preparation of highly active electrocatalysts for electrochemical energy conversion is extremely critical to the development of portable electronic devices. In this work, a hybrid catalyst of porous bimetallic PdCu nanofinger supported on graphene was simply synthesized by a one-step stabilizer-free method. The described method, carried out under room temperature without complicated procedures, not only abandoned the electrochemically hindered organic stabilizers during the synthesis, but also made the as-prepared catalyst with bimetallic composition strongly couple to graphene nanosheets. Meanwhile, it also provided the catalyst with large surface area and hierarchical pore structures via the spatially interconnected finger-like nanoparticles. As a result, the catalyst exhibited a synergistically enhanced electrocatalytic activity (2025.6 mA/mgPd) and stability for methanol electro-oxidation reaction, which was superior to the commercial Pd/C catalyst and the other reported Pd-based catalysts. In addition, the electrocatalytic performances could be easily adjusted by regulating the catalyst composition via this facile synthesis. These findings suggested a straightforward method to prepare the practical electrocatalysts with low cost and high activity for the fuel cell technologies. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.