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Electrochemically Seed-Mediated Synthesis of Sub-10 nm Tetrahexahedral Pt Nanocrystals Supported on Graphene with Improved Catalytic Performance

Posted：2016-04-25  Visits：

  Prof. Shigang Sun published a paper entitled "Electrochemically Seed-Mediated Synthesis of Sub-10 nm Tetrahexahedral Pt Nanocrystals Supported on Graphene with Improved Catalytic Performance" in J. Am. Chem. Soc.。

Abstract


  Controlling the surface structure of Pt nanocrystals (NCs), especially creating high-index facets with abundant active step sites, is an effective approach to enhance catalytic performances. However, the available high-index faceted Pt NCs have large particle sizes, which severely impedes their practical applications. In this study, we reported a new electrochemically seed-mediated method, by which sub-10 nm tetrahexahedral Pt NCs (THH Pt NCs) enclosed with {210} high-index facets supported on graphene were synthesized. Pt nanoparticles of ∼3 nm in size as high-density crystal seeds play a key role in the small-sized control. The obtained THH Pt NCs exhibited a higher mass activity than commercial Pt/C catalyst for ethanol electrooxidation. We further demonstrated that this method is also valid for reshaping commercial Pt/C, to create high-index facets on surfaces and thus to improve both mass activity and stability.

FULLLINK：http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.5b13473