The development of highly efficient and stable Pd-based catalysts is crucial to improve their sluggish oxygen reduction reaction(ORR)kinetics in acid media.To improve ORR activity and utilization efficiency of Pd,an i...The development of highly efficient and stable Pd-based catalysts is crucial to improve their sluggish oxygen reduction reaction(ORR)kinetics in acid media.To improve ORR activity and utilization efficiency of Pd,an ideal catalyst should have ORR-favorable chemical environment,optimized geometric structure,and long periods of operation.In this work,we first synthesize a novel trimetallic Au@PdPb core–shell catalyst consisting of PdPb alloy nano-layers grown on the surface of ultrathin Au nanowires(NWs)by a two-step water-bath method.The Au@PdPb NWs have the merits of anisotropic one-dimensional nanostructure,high utilization efficiency of Pd atoms and doping of Pb atoms.Because of the structural and multiple compositional advantages,Au@PdPb NWs exhibit remarkably enhanced ORR activity with a high haIf-wave potential(0.827 V),much better than those of commercial Pd black(0.788 V)and bimetallic Au@Pd NWs(0.803 V).Moreover,Au@PdPb NWs display better electrocatalytic stability for the ORR than those of Pd black and Au@Pd NWs.This study demonstrates the validity of our approach for deriving highly ORR-active Pd-based catalysts by modifying their structure and composition.展开更多
基金supported by the Academic Research Fund(AcRF)Tier 1 Grant(No.RG105/19)from the Ministry of Education in Singapore,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21875112)and the China Scholarship Council(No.201906090199).
文摘The development of highly efficient and stable Pd-based catalysts is crucial to improve their sluggish oxygen reduction reaction(ORR)kinetics in acid media.To improve ORR activity and utilization efficiency of Pd,an ideal catalyst should have ORR-favorable chemical environment,optimized geometric structure,and long periods of operation.In this work,we first synthesize a novel trimetallic Au@PdPb core–shell catalyst consisting of PdPb alloy nano-layers grown on the surface of ultrathin Au nanowires(NWs)by a two-step water-bath method.The Au@PdPb NWs have the merits of anisotropic one-dimensional nanostructure,high utilization efficiency of Pd atoms and doping of Pb atoms.Because of the structural and multiple compositional advantages,Au@PdPb NWs exhibit remarkably enhanced ORR activity with a high haIf-wave potential(0.827 V),much better than those of commercial Pd black(0.788 V)and bimetallic Au@Pd NWs(0.803 V).Moreover,Au@PdPb NWs display better electrocatalytic stability for the ORR than those of Pd black and Au@Pd NWs.This study demonstrates the validity of our approach for deriving highly ORR-active Pd-based catalysts by modifying their structure and composition.