Porous platinum mesoflowers with enhanced activity for methanol oxidation reaction

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Abstract

Porous Pt and Pt-Ag alloy mesoflowers (MFs) with about 2 μm in diameter and high porosity were synthesized using Ag mesoflowers as sacrificial template by galvanic reaction. The silver content in Pt-Ag alloys can be facilely controlled by nitric acid treatment. And the pure Pt MFs can be obtained by selective removal of silver element from Pt 72Ag 28 MFs electrochemically. Both Pt 45Ag 55, Pt 72Ag 28 and pure Pt show a high catalytic performance in methanol oxidation reaction (MOR). Especially, pure Pt MFs exhibited a 2 to 3 times current density enhancement in MOR compared with the commercial used Pt black, which can be attributed to their porous nanostructure with 3-dimentional nature and small crystal sizes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)239-245
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Solid State Chemistry
Volume191
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2012

Keywords

  • Methanol oxidation reaction
  • Noble metal
  • Platinum mesoflower
  • Porous nanostructure

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