A facile strategy to Pt3Ni nanocrystals with highly porous features as an enhanced oxygen reduction reaction catalyst

Xiaoqing Huang; Enbo Zhu; Yu Chen; Yongjia Li; Chin-Yi Chiu; Yuxi Xu; Zhaoyang Lin; Xiangfeng Duan; Yu Huang

doi:10.1002/adma.201205315

A facile strategy to Pt3Ni nanocrystals with highly porous features as an enhanced oxygen reduction reaction catalyst

Adv Mater. 2013 Jun 4;25(21):2974-9. doi: 10.1002/adma.201205315. Epub 2013 Apr 22.

Authors

Xiaoqing Huang¹, Enbo Zhu, Yu Chen, Yongjia Li, Chin-Yi Chiu, Yuxi Xu, Zhaoyang Lin, Xiangfeng Duan, Yu Huang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, 90095, USA.

PMID: 23606407
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201205315

Abstract

A facile strategy to Pt3Ni nanocrystals with highly porous features is developed. The integration of a high surface area and rich step/edge atoms endows the nanocrystals with an impressive oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) specific activity and mass activity. These nanocrystals are more stable in ORR and show a small activity change after 6000 potential sweeps. This is a promising material for practical electrocatalytic applications.

Keywords: Pt3Ni; alloys; oxygen reduction reaction; phenol; porous materials.