An alternate aqueous phase synthesis of the Pt3Co/C catalyst towards efficient oxygen reduction reaction

Carbon supported Pt-Co alloys are among the most promising electrocatalysts towards oxygen reduction reaction(ORR)for the application in low temperature fuel cells and beyond,thus their facile and green synthesis is highly demanded.Herein we initially report an alternate aqueous phase one-pot synthesis of such catalysts(containing nominally ca.20 wt.%Pt)based on dimethylamine borane(DMAB)reduction.The as-obtained electrocatalyst(denoted as Pt3Co/C-DMAB)is compared with the ones obtained by NaBH4 and N2H4·H2O reduction(denoted as Pt3Co/C-NaBH4 and Pt3Co/C-N2H4·H2O,respectively)as well as a commercial Pt/C,in terms of the structure and electrocatalytic property.It turns out that Pt3Co/C-DMAB exhibits the highest ORR performance among all the tested samples in an O2-saturated 0.1 mol/L HClO4,with the mass activity(specific activity)ca.4(6)times as large as that for Pt/C.After 10000 cycles of the accelerated degradation test,the half-wave potential for ORR on Pt3Co/C-DMAB decreases only by 4 mV,in contrast to 24 mV for that on Pt/C.Pt3Co/C-NaBH4 or Pt3Co/C-N2H4·H2O shows a specific activity comparable to that for Pt3Co/C-DMAB,but a mass activity similar to that for Pt/C.ICP-AES,TEM,XRD and XPS characterizations indicate that Pt3Co nanoparticles are well-dispersed and alloyed with a mean particle size of ca.3.4±0.4 nm,contributing to the prominent electrocatalytic performance of Pt3Co/C-DMAB.This simple aqueous synthetic route may provide an alternate opportunity for developing efficient practical electrocatalysts for ORR.

AQUEOUS PHASE SYNTHESIS OF(RC_5H_4)_2Ti(O_2CC_6H_4X)_2

Nine complexes(RC_5H_4)_2Ti(O_2CC_6H_4X)_2(R=H,CH_3;X=H,o-Cl,o-OH, o-NH_2,o-NHPh)have been conveniently prepared by the reaction of (RC_5H_4)_2TiCl_2 with 2 equiv.sodium salts of corresponding carboxylic acid in aqueous solution containing acetylacetone.The carboxylate ligands in the complexes coordinate to titanium atom in monodentate mode.

Aqueous Phase Synthesis and Fluorescence Properties of Inverted Core/Shell ZnSe/CdSe Nanocrystals

We report a facile aqueous phase synthesis for prepar-ing water-soluble inverted core/shell ZnSe/CdSe semiconductor nanocrystals. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD),transmission electron microscopy (TEM),and their optical properties were investigated by using UV-vis-NIR spectropho-tometer and fluorescence spectrophotometer. The results indicate that the synthesized ZnSe/CdSe nanocrystals are inverted core/shell structure with diameter of about 5 nm. Furthermore,their absorption band-edge is red-shifted with the growth of CdSe shell; correspondingly,their emission wavelength can be tuned from 460 nm to 604 nm.

Selective Synthesis and Advanced Characteristic of CdSe Semiconductor Quantum Dots by Aqueous Phase

This work mainly investigated the influences of some factors, such as, synthesis methods, precursor alteraatives, and vacuum heat-treating process, etc, on the fluorescent characteristics of the semiconductor quantum dots synthesized by aqueous phase. The research results indicate that the fluorescent characteristic of water- solution sample prepared from Na2 SO3 precursor was sensitive to water bath heating time, and specially, its photohuninescence spectrum shows the unique phenomenon of double excitation and emission peaks. Meanwhile, the fluorescent characteristic of water- solution sample prepared from NaBH4 precursor is slightly influenced by water bath heating time, and the sugface of CdSe quantum dots could be passivated by the excessive amount of NaBH4 precursor, which results in the effective decrease of surface traps and great enhancement of quantum yield. Furthermore, the fluorescent emission peaks of samples could be sharpened by vacuum heat-treating process, with its spectral full width at half of maximum （FWHM） around 30- 40 run, so the emission peaks become redshifi, of which the intensity greatly increases.

Synthesis and Properties of Water-soluble CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals with the Type-I Core/Shell Structure

The synthesis of CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals though aqueous phase using the coprecipitation method was reported. The influences of factors such as injection methods and dosages of precursors, reaction duration of water-bathing and the initial CdSe：ZnS molar ratio were discussed. In comparison to the CdSe plain core nanocrystals, the CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals show much brighter photoluminescence demonstrated by the photoluminescence spectra. The epitaxial growth of the core/shell structures was verified by TEM and XRD.