Chemically Ordered Pt–Co–Cu/C as Excellent Electrochemical Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Zhang, Libo, Ji, Xiangdong, Wang, Xiaoran, Fu, Richard, Zhu, Hong and Liu, Xiaoteng (2020) Chemically Ordered Pt–Co–Cu/C as Excellent Electrochemical Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 167 (2). 024507. ISSN 1945-7111

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Abstract

This paper reveals the ordered structure and composition effect to electrochemical catalytic activity towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of ternary metallic Pt–Co–Cu/C catalysts. Bimetallic Pt-Co alloy nanoparticles (NPs) represent an emerging class of electrocatalysts for ORR, but practical applications, e.g. in fuel cells, have been hindered by low catalytic performances owning to crystal phase and atomic composition. Cu is introduced into Pt-Co/C lattices to form PtCoxCu1−x/C (x = 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75) ternary-face-centered tetragonal (fct) ordered ternary metallic NPs. The chemically ordered Pt–Co–Cu/C catalysts exhibit excellent performance of 1.31 A mg−1 Pt in mass activity and 0.59 A cm−2 Pt in specific activity which are significantly higher than Pt-Co/C and commercial Johnson Matthey (JM) Pt/C catalysts, because of the ordered crystal phase and composition control modified the Pt-Pt atoms distance and the surface electronic properties. The presence of Cu improves the surface electronic structure, as well as enhances the stability of catalysts.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2020 The Electrochemical Society ("ECS"). Published on behalf of ECS by IOP Publishing Limited
Subjects: F100 Chemistry
H800 Chemical, Process and Energy Engineering
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 22 Jan 2020 09:34
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 20:03
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41967

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