Eliminating dissolution of platinum-based electrocatalysts at the atomic scale
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2020
Authors
Lopes, Pietro
Li, Dongguo

Lv, Haifeng
Wang, Chao

Tripković, Dušan

Zhu, Yisi

Schimmenti, Roberto

Daimon, Hideo

Kang, Yijin

Snyder, Joshua

Becknell, Nigel

More, Karren

Strmcnik, Dusan
Marković, Nenad M.

Mavrikakis, Manos

Stamenković, Vojislav

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A remaining challenge for deployment of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells is thelimited durability of Pt-nanoscale materials that operate at high voltages during thecathodic oxygen reduction reaction. In this work, atomic-scale insight into well-definedsingle crystalline, thin-film, and nanoscale surfaces exposed Pt dissolution trends thatgoverned the design and synthesis of durable materials. A newly defined metric, intrinsicdissolution, is essential to understanding the correlation between the measured Pt loss,surface structure, size and ratio of Pt-nanoparticles in carbon support. It was found that utilization of Au underlayer promotes ordering of Pt surface atoms towards (111)- structure, while Au on the surface selectively protects low-coordinated Pt sites. Thismitigation strategy was applied towards 3 nm Pt3Au/C nanoparticles, resulting inelimination of Pt dissolution in liquid electrolyte, including 30-fold durability improvementvs. 3 nm Pt/C over extended potential range up t...o 1.2 V.
Keywords:
Electrocatalysis / Fuel cells / Materials for energy and catalysisSource:
Nature Materials, 2020, 19, 1207-1214Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
Projects:
- US Department of Energy (DOE), contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357
- US Department of Energy (DOE), grantant DE-FG02-05ER15731
- US Department of Energy (DOE), contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231
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- The peer-reviewed version of the article: https://cer.ihtm.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3698
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-020-0735-3
ISSN: 1476-1122
PubMed: 32724187