Trimetallic TriStar Nanostructures: Tuning Electronic and Surface Structures for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

Nana Du; Chengming Wang; Xijun Wang; Yue Lin; Jun Jiang; Yujie Xiong

doi:10.1002/adma.201504785

Trimetallic TriStar Nanostructures: Tuning Electronic and Surface Structures for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

Adv Mater. 2016 Mar 9;28(10):2077-84. doi: 10.1002/adma.201504785. Epub 2016 Jan 12.

Authors

Nana Du^{1

2}, Chengming Wang¹, Xijun Wang¹, Yue Lin¹, Jun Jiang¹, Yujie Xiong¹

Affiliations

¹ Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Hefei Science Center (CAS), and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China.
² College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Fuyang Normal College, Fuyang, Anhui, 236041, P. R. China.

PMID: 26757098
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504785

Abstract

PtFeCo alloy nanostructures in a TriStar shape with tunable Fe and Co content are developed for the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). With electronic and surface structures well-tailored, the PtFeCo nanostructures exhibit dramatically enhanced performance in HER against commercial Pt/C and other Pt-based nanoparticles.

Keywords: alloy lattices; d-band centers; electrocatalysis; hydrogen evolution reactions; nanostructures.