One-pot synthesis of PtRu nanodendrites as efficient catalysts for methanol oxidation reaction

Shuanglong Lu; Kamel Eid; Danhua Ge; Jun Guo; Liang Wang; Hongjing Wang; Hongwei Gu

doi:10.1039/c6nr08895c

One-pot synthesis of PtRu nanodendrites as efficient catalysts for methanol oxidation reaction

Nanoscale. 2017 Jan 19;9(3):1033-1039. doi: 10.1039/c6nr08895c.

Authors

Shuanglong Lu¹, Kamel Eid², Danhua Ge¹, Jun Guo³, Liang Wang², Hongjing Wang², Hongwei Gu¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Collaborative Innovation Centre of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P.R. China. [email protected].
² College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310014, P.R. China. [email protected].
³ Analysis and Testing Centre, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P.R. China.

PMID: 28009900
DOI: 10.1039/c6nr08895c

Abstract

Bimetallic Pt-based nanodendrites are of particular interest in various catalytic applications due to their high surface areas and low densities. Herein, we provide a facile method for one-pot synthesis of PtRu nanodendrites via the co-reduction of Pt and Ru precursors in oleylamine by H₂. The as-fabricated PtRu nanodendrites exhibit superior catalytic activity and durability compared with PtRu nanocrystals (NCs), synthesized under the same reaction conditions, and the commercial Pt/C catalyst towards the methanol oxidation reaction (MOR).