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| Date: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | The development of highly active, low cost and stable electrocatalysts for direct alcohol fuel cells remains a critical challenge. While Pd₂Sn has been reported as an excellent catalyst for the ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR), here we present DFT analysis results showing the (100) and (001) facets of orthorhombic PdSn to be more favourable for the EOR than (010). Accordingly, using tri-n-octylphosphine, oleylamine (OLA) and methylamine hydrochloride as size and shape directing agents, we produced colloidal Pd₂Sn nanorods (NRs) grown in the [010] direction. Such Pd₂Sn NRs, supported on graphitic carbon, showed excellent performance and stability as an anode electrocatalyst for the EOR in alkaline media, exhibiting 3 times and 10 times higher EOR current densities than that of PdSn and Pd nanospheres, respectively. We associate this improved performance with the favourable faceting of the NRs. |
| Grants: | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MAT2014-59961-C2 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad SEV-2013-0295 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014/SGR-1638 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2013/BP-A00344 |
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| Language: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar |
| Subject: | Anode electrocatalyst ; Critical challenges ; Ethanol oxidation ; Ethanol oxidation reaction ; Graphitic carbons ; Pd nanospheres ; Size and shape ; Tri-n-octylphosphine |
| Published in: | Journal of materials chemistry. A, Vol. 4, issue 42 (2016) , p. 16706-16713, ISSN 2050-7496 |
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