DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Pd@Pt core-shell concave decahedra: A class of catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction with enhanced activity and durability

Abstract

Here, we report a facile synthesis of multiply twinned Pd@Pt core shell concave decahedra by controlling the deposition of Pt on preformed Pd decahedral seeds. The Pt atoms are initially deposited on the vertices of a decahedral seed, followed by surface diffusion to other regions along the edges/ridges and then across the faces. Different from the coating of a Pd icosahedral seed, the Pt atoms prefer to stay at the vertices and edges/ridges of a decahedral seed even when the deposition is conducted at 200 degrees C, naturally generating a core shell structure covered by concave facets. The nonuniformity in the Pt coating can be attributed to the presence of twin boundaries at the vertices, as well as the {100} facets and twin defects along the edges/ridges of a decahedron, effectively trapping the Pt adatoms at these high-energy sites. As compared to a commercial Pt/C catalyst, the Pd@Pt concave decahedra show substantial enhancement in both catalytic activity and durability toward the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). For the concave decahedra with 29.6% Pt by weight, their specific (1.66 mA/cm2pt) and mass (1.60 A/mg/2pt) ORR activities are enhanced by 4.4 and 6.6 times relative to those of the Pt/C catalyst (0.36 mA/cm2ptmore » and 0.32 A/mgpt, respectively). After 10 000 cycles of accelerated durability test, the concave decahedra still exhibit a mass activity of 0.69 A/mgpt, more than twice that of the pristine Pt/C catalyst.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [4];  [2];  [5];  [1];  [6];  [7];  [8]
  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States); Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States); Xiamen Univ., Fujian (People's Republic of China)
  2. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States); Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States)
  5. Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
  6. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
  7. Hitachi High-Technologies Canada, Toronto, ON (Canada)
  8. Xiamen Univ., Fujian (People's Republic of China)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1279435
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 137; Journal Issue: 47; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Wang, Xue, Vera, Madeline, Chi, Miaofang, Xia, Younan, Luo, Ming, Huang, Hongwen, Ruditskiy, Aleksey, Park, Jinho, Bao, Shixiong, Liu, Jingyue, Howe, Jane, and Xie, Zhaoxiong. Pd@Pt core-shell concave decahedra: A class of catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction with enhanced activity and durability. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b10059.
Wang, Xue, Vera, Madeline, Chi, Miaofang, Xia, Younan, Luo, Ming, Huang, Hongwen, Ruditskiy, Aleksey, Park, Jinho, Bao, Shixiong, Liu, Jingyue, Howe, Jane, & Xie, Zhaoxiong. Pd@Pt core-shell concave decahedra: A class of catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction with enhanced activity and durability. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b10059
Wang, Xue, Vera, Madeline, Chi, Miaofang, Xia, Younan, Luo, Ming, Huang, Hongwen, Ruditskiy, Aleksey, Park, Jinho, Bao, Shixiong, Liu, Jingyue, Howe, Jane, and Xie, Zhaoxiong. Fri . "Pd@Pt core-shell concave decahedra: A class of catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction with enhanced activity and durability". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b10059. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1279435.
@article{osti_1279435,
title = {Pd@Pt core-shell concave decahedra: A class of catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction with enhanced activity and durability},
author = {Wang, Xue and Vera, Madeline and Chi, Miaofang and Xia, Younan and Luo, Ming and Huang, Hongwen and Ruditskiy, Aleksey and Park, Jinho and Bao, Shixiong and Liu, Jingyue and Howe, Jane and Xie, Zhaoxiong},
abstractNote = {Here, we report a facile synthesis of multiply twinned Pd@Pt core shell concave decahedra by controlling the deposition of Pt on preformed Pd decahedral seeds. The Pt atoms are initially deposited on the vertices of a decahedral seed, followed by surface diffusion to other regions along the edges/ridges and then across the faces. Different from the coating of a Pd icosahedral seed, the Pt atoms prefer to stay at the vertices and edges/ridges of a decahedral seed even when the deposition is conducted at 200 degrees C, naturally generating a core shell structure covered by concave facets. The nonuniformity in the Pt coating can be attributed to the presence of twin boundaries at the vertices, as well as the {100} facets and twin defects along the edges/ridges of a decahedron, effectively trapping the Pt adatoms at these high-energy sites. As compared to a commercial Pt/C catalyst, the Pd@Pt concave decahedra show substantial enhancement in both catalytic activity and durability toward the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). For the concave decahedra with 29.6% Pt by weight, their specific (1.66 mA/cm2pt) and mass (1.60 A/mg/2pt) ORR activities are enhanced by 4.4 and 6.6 times relative to those of the Pt/C catalyst (0.36 mA/cm2pt and 0.32 A/mgpt, respectively). After 10 000 cycles of accelerated durability test, the concave decahedra still exhibit a mass activity of 0.69 A/mgpt, more than twice that of the pristine Pt/C catalyst.},
doi = {10.1021/jacs.5b10059},
journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
number = 47,
volume = 137,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 244 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Electrocatalyst approaches and challenges for automotive fuel cells
journal, June 2012


Activity benchmarks and requirements for Pt, Pt-alloy, and non-Pt oxygen reduction catalysts for PEMFCs
journal, March 2005

  • Gasteiger, Hubert A.; Kocha, Shyam S.; Sompalli, Bhaskar
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Vol. 56, Issue 1-2, p. 9-35
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2004.06.021

Shape-controlled synthesis of platinum nanocrystals for catalytic and electrocatalytic applications
journal, February 2009


Platinum Concave Nanocubes with High-Index Facets and Their Enhanced Activity for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, February 2011

  • Yu, Taekyung; Kim, Do Youb; Zhang, Hui
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 50, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201007859

Highly Uniform Platinum Icosahedra Made by Hot Injection-Assisted GRAILS Method
journal, May 2013

  • Zhou, Wei; Wu, Jianbo; Yang, Hong
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 13, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl401214d

Synthesis and Oxygen Reduction Activity of Shape-Controlled Pt 3 Ni Nanopolyhedra
journal, February 2010

  • Zhang, Jun; Yang, Hongzhou; Fang, Jiye
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 10, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl903717z

Synthesis and Characterization of 9 nm Pt–Ni Octahedra with a Record High Activity of 3.3 A/mg Pt for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, June 2013

  • Choi, Sang-Il; Xie, Shuifen; Shao, Minhua
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 13, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl401881z

Icosahedral Platinum Alloy Nanocrystals with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activities
journal, July 2012

  • Wu, Jianbo; Qi, Liang; You, Hongjun
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 134, Issue 29
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja303950v

Compositional segregation in shaped Pt alloy nanoparticles and their structural behaviour during electrocatalysis
journal, June 2013

  • Cui, Chunhua; Gan, Lin; Heggen, Marc
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat3668

Highly Crystalline Multimetallic Nanoframes with Three-Dimensional Electrocatalytic Surfaces
journal, February 2014


Platinum-based nanocages with subnanometer-thick walls and well-defined, controllable facets
journal, July 2015


Controlling the Catalytic Activity of Platinum-Monolayer Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction with Different Substrates
journal, March 2005

  • Zhang, Junliang; Vukmirovic, Miomir B.; Xu, Ye
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 44, Issue 14, p. 2132-2135
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.200462335

Platinum Monolayer Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts
journal, November 2007


Highly stable Pt monolayer on PdAu nanoparticle electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction
journal, January 2012

  • Sasaki, Kotaro; Naohara, Hideo; Choi, YongMan
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 3, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2124

Platinum Monolayer Electrocatalysts for O2 Reduction:  Pt Monolayer on Pd(111) and on Carbon-Supported Pd Nanoparticles
journal, July 2004

  • Zhang, J.; Mo, Y.; Vukmirovic, M. B.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 108, Issue 30, p. 10955-10964
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp0379953

Enhanced Electrocatalytic Performance of Processed, Ultrathin, Supported Pd–Pt Core–Shell Nanowire Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, June 2011

  • Koenigsmann, Christopher; Santulli, Alexander C.; Gong, Kuanping
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 133, Issue 25
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja111130t

Atomic Layer-by-Layer Deposition of Platinum on Palladium Octahedra for Enhanced Catalysts toward the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, February 2015

  • Park, Jinho; Zhang, Lei; Choi, Sang-Il
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 9, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1021/nn506387w

Palladium–platinum core-shell icosahedra with substantially enhanced activity and durability towards oxygen reduction
journal, July 2015

  • Wang, Xue; Choi, Sang-Il; Roling, Luke T.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8594

Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Metal Nanocrystals: Simple Chemistry Meets Complex Physics?
journal, December 2008

  • Xia, Younan; Xiong, Yujie; Lim, Byungkwon
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 48, Issue 1, p. 60-103
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.200802248

High-Index Faceted Noble Metal Nanocrystals
journal, May 2012

  • Quan, Zewei; Wang, Yuxuan; Fang, Jiye
  • Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 46, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1021/ar200293n

Synthesis of Tetrahexahedral Platinum Nanocrystals with High-Index Facets and High Electro-Oxidation Activity
journal, May 2007


Palladium Concave Nanocubes with High-Index Facets and Their Enhanced Catalytic Properties
journal, July 2011

  • Jin, Mingshang; Zhang, Hui; Xie, Zhaoxiong
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 50, Issue 34
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201103002

Polyol Syntheses of Palladium Decahedra and Icosahedra as Pure Samples by Maneuvering the Reaction Kinetics with Additives
journal, June 2014

  • Huang, Hongwen; Wang, Yi; Ruditskiy, Aleksey
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 8, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1021/nn501919e

Synergy between Crystal Strain and Surface Energy in Morphological Evolution of Five-Fold-Twinned Silver Crystals
journal, October 2008

  • Zhang, Weijia; Liu, Yan; Cao, Ronggen
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 130, Issue 46
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja805606q

On the role of surface diffusion in determining the shape or morphology of noble-metal nanocrystals
journal, April 2013

  • Xia, X.; Xie, S.; Liu, M.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 110, Issue 17
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222109110

A Comprehensive Study of Formic Acid Oxidation on Palladium Nanocrystals with Different Types of Facets and Twin Defects
journal, April 2015

  • Choi, Sang-Il; Herron, Jeffrey A.; Scaranto, Jessica
  • ChemCatChem, Vol. 7, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201500094

Calculation of the surface energy of FCC metals with modified embedded-atom method
journal, May 2004


Structure shape and stability of nanometric sized particles
journal, January 2001

  • Yacamán, M. José; Ascencio, J. A.; Liu, H. B.
  • Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, Vol. 19, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1116/1.1387089

Role of Strain and Ligand Effects in the Modification of the Electronic and Chemical Properties of Bimetallic Surfaces
journal, October 2004


Oxygen Reduction on Well-Defined Core−Shell Nanocatalysts: Particle Size, Facet, and Pt Shell Thickness Effects
journal, December 2009

  • Wang, Jia X.; Inada, Hiromi; Wu, Lijun
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 131, Issue 47
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja9067645

Quantitating the Lattice Strain Dependence of Monolayer Pt Shell Activity toward Oxygen Reduction
journal, April 2013

  • Wang, Xiaoming; Orikasa, Yuki; Takesue, Yuki
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja312382h

Effect of Strain on the Reactivity of Metal Surfaces
journal, September 1998


Works referencing / citing this record:

Tuning Surface Structure and Strain in Pd-Pt Core-Shell Nanocrystals for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction
journal, November 2016


Pt‐Based Nanocrystal for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction
journal, December 2018


Core–Shell-Structured Low-Platinum Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cell Applications
journal, July 2018


Enhancement in kinetics of the oxygen reduction on a silver catalyst by introduction of interlaces and defect-rich facets
journal, January 2017

  • Xie, Xiaohong; Wei, Mengxia; Du, Lei
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 5, Issue 29
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7ta03287k

Monocrystalline platinum–nickel branched nanocages with enhanced catalytic performance towards the hydrogen evolution reaction
journal, January 2018

  • Cao, Zhenming; Li, Huiqi; Zhan, Chenyang
  • Nanoscale, Vol. 10, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7nr09116h

Defect‐Directed Growth of Symmetrically Branched Metal Nanocrystals
journal, January 2020

  • Smith, Joshua D.; Bladt, Eva; Burkhart, Joseph A. C.
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 59, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201913301

Surface Atomic Regulation of Core–Shell Noble Metal Catalysts
journal, January 2019

  • Ge, Jingjie; Li, Zhijun; Hong, Xun
  • Chemistry – A European Journal, Vol. 25, Issue 20
  • DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805332

Rh-Based Nanocatalysts for Heterogeneous Reactions
journal, April 2018


Pt 9 Ni Wavelike Nanowires with High Activity for Oxygen Reduction Reactions
journal, September 2018

  • Lv, Pengfei; Jin, Benjin; Mei, Chao
  • Chemistry - A European Journal, Vol. 24, Issue 55
  • DOI: 10.1002/chem.201803748

The Quasi‐Pt‐Allotrope Catalyst: Hollow PtCo@single‐Atom Pt 1 on Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon toward Superior Oxygen Reduction
journal, February 2019

  • Lai, Wei‐Hong; Zhang, Bin‐Wei; Hu, Zhenpeng
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 13
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201807340

Nanoscale kinetics of asymmetrical corrosion in core-shell nanoparticles
journal, March 2018


Enhanced catalytic activity of Au core Pd shell Pt cluster trimetallic nanorods for CO 2 reduction
journal, January 2019

  • He, Lan-qi; Yang, Hao; Huang, Jia-jun
  • RSC Advances, Vol. 9, Issue 18
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8ra10494h

Seed-Mediated Growth of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals
journal, December 2016

  • Xia, Younan; Gilroy, Kyle D.; Peng, Hsin-Chieh
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 56, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201604731

Aqueous Synthesis of Pd–M (M = Pd, Pt, and Au) Decahedra with Concave Facets for Catalytic Applications
journal, February 2020


Pd-P nanoparticles supported on P x O y -incorporated carbon nanotubes for enhanced methanol oxidation in an alkaline medium
journal, January 2017

  • Xie, Yanan; Yu, Weizhen; Wang, Juan
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 19, Issue 36
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7cp04540a

Rational Design and Synthesis of Low-Temperature Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts
journal, March 2018


Decoupling strain and ligand effects in ternary nanoparticles for improved ORR electrocatalysis
journal, January 2016

  • Jennings, Paul C.; Lysgaard, Steen; Hansen, Heine A.
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 18, Issue 35
  • DOI: 10.1039/c6cp04194a

Trimetallic PtPdCo mesoporous nanopolyhedra with hollow cavities
journal, January 2019

  • Xu, You; Li, Yinghao; Qian, Xiaoqian
  • Nanoscale, Vol. 11, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9nr00598f

Oriented attachment induces fivefold twins by forming and decomposing high-energy grain boundaries
journal, November 2019


Hollow Metal Nanocrystals with Ultrathin, Porous Walls and Well-Controlled Surface Structures
journal, July 2018


Shape‐Controlled Synthesis of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals by Replicating the Surface Atomic Structure on the Seed
journal, April 2018


Facile synthesis and heteroepitaxial growth mechanism of Au@Cu core–shell bimetallic nanocubes probed by first-principles studies
journal, January 2017

  • Wang, Changshun; Li, Junlong; Lou, Yeke
  • CrystEngComm, Vol. 19, Issue 48
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7ce01617d

Robust synthesis of ultrathin Au–Ag nanowires as a high-surface-area, synergistic substrate for constructing efficient Pt-based catalysts
journal, January 2018

  • Zhang, Shumeng; Zhang, Lei; Liu, Zhaojun
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 6, Issue 44
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8ta05663c

Facile synthesis of ultrathin Pt–Pd nanosheets for enhanced formic acid oxidation and oxygen reduction reaction
journal, January 2019

  • Yang, Qian; Shi, Lijie; Yu, Beibei
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 7, Issue 32
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9ta03945g

The role and fate of capping ligands in colloidally prepared metal nanoparticle catalysts
journal, January 2018

  • Rossi, Liane M.; Fiorio, Jhonatan L.; Garcia, Marco A. S.
  • Dalton Transactions, Vol. 47, Issue 17
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7dt04728b

Pt–Ag cubic nanocages with wall thickness less than 2 nm and their enhanced catalytic activity toward oxygen reduction
journal, January 2017

  • Sun, Xiaojun; Yang, Xuan; Zhang, Yun
  • Nanoscale, Vol. 9, Issue 39
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7nr04366j

Keimvermitteltes Wachstum kolloidaler Metallnanokristalle
journal, December 2016

  • Xia, Younan; Gilroy, Kyle D.; Peng, Hsin-Chieh
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 129, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201604731

Emerging new generation electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction
journal, January 2016

  • Raj, C. Retna; Samanta, Arpan; Noh, Seung Hyo
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 4, Issue 29
  • DOI: 10.1039/c6ta03300h

Noble-Metal Nanocrystals with Controlled Facets for Electrocatalysis
journal, July 2016

  • Hong, Jong Wook; Kim, Yena; Kwon, Yongmin
  • Chemistry - An Asian Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1002/asia.201600462

Surface evolution of a Pt–Pd–Au electrocatalyst for stable oxygen reduction
journal, July 2017


Gold-Doping of Double-Crown Pd Nanoclusters
journal, November 2017

  • Chen, Jishi; Liu, Liren; Liu, Xu
  • Chemistry - A European Journal, Vol. 23, Issue 72
  • DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704413

Toward affordable and sustainable use of precious metals in catalysis and nanomedicine
journal, November 2018


Enhanced Oxygen Reduction and Methanol Oxidation Electrocatalysis over Bifunctional PtPdIr Mesoporous Hollow Nanospheres
journal, September 2019

  • Deng, Kai; Xu, You; Dai, Zechuan
  • Chemistry – An Asian Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1002/asia.201901098

The Use of a Biopolymer Conjugate for an Eco-Friendly One-Pot Synthesis of Palladium-Platinum Alloys
journal, November 2019

  • Silvestri, Daniele; Wacławek, Stanisław; K. Ramakrishnan, Rohith
  • Polymers, Vol. 11, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.3390/polym11121948

Constructing an Atomic Layer Pt Electrocatalyst with a Concave Curved Surface for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, July 2017


Nanoscale Structure Design for High-Performance Pt-Based ORR Catalysts
journal, December 2018

  • Liu, Meiling; Zhao, Zipeng; Duan, Xiangfeng
  • Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1002/adma.201802234

One‐Pot Synthesis of Pd@Pt n L Core‐Shell Icosahedral Nanocrystals in High Throughput through a Quantitative Analysis of the Reduction Kinetics
journal, March 2019

  • Lee, Chi‐Ta; Wang, Helan; Zhao, Ming
  • Chemistry – A European Journal, Vol. 25, Issue 20
  • DOI: 10.1002/chem.201900229

Catalytic CO oxidation on B-doped and BN co-doped penta-graphene: a computational study
journal, January 2018

  • Krishnan, Ranganathan; Wu, Shiuan-Yau; Chen, Hsin-Tsung
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 20, Issue 41
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04745f

On Metal Segregation of Bimetallic Nanocatalysts Prepared by a One-Pot Method in Microemulsions
journal, February 2017

  • Tojo, Concha; Buceta, David; López-Quintela, Manuel
  • Catalysts, Vol. 7, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.3390/catal7020068

One-pot synthesis of a PtPd dendritic nanocube cage superstructure on graphenes as advanced catalysts for oxygen reduction
journal, January 2018


Intermetallic PtBi core/ultrathin Pt shell nanoplates for efficient and stable methanol and ethanol electro-oxidization
journal, November 2018


Shaping well-defined noble-metal-based nanostructures for fabricating high-performance electrocatalysts: advances and perspectives
journal, January 2019

  • Yin, Hai-Jing; Zhou, Jun-Hao; Zhang, Ya-Wen
  • Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Vol. 6, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9qi00689c

Rational synthesis of Pt-based dandelion-like yolk–shell nanoparticles with enhanced oxygen reduction properties
journal, January 2019

  • Li, Chunjie; Yin, Shuli; Yu, Hongjie
  • Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Vol. 3, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9se00618d

Continuous and Scalable Synthesis of Pt Multipods with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity toward the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
journal, March 2019


Fabrication of Pd/P nanoparticle networks with high activity for methanol oxidation
journal, January 2016

  • Zhang, Ke; Wang, Caiqin; Bin, Duan
  • Catalysis Science & Technology, Vol. 6, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1039/c6cy00789a

Pt-Based electrocatalysts with high atom utilization efficiency: from nanostructures to single atoms
journal, January 2019

  • Zhang, Lei; Doyle-Davis, Kieran; Sun, Xueliang
  • Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 12, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8ee02939c

Shape-controlled synthesis of Au–Pd bimetallic nanocrystals for catalytic applications
journal, January 2016

  • Zhang, Lei; Xie, Zhaoxiong; Gong, Jinlong
  • Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 45, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1039/c5cs00958h

Hollow nanoparticles as emerging electrocatalysts for renewable energy conversion reactions
journal, January 2018

  • Park, Jongsik; Kwon, Taehyun; Kim, Jun
  • Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 47, Issue 22
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00336j

Submonolayered Ru Deposited on Ultrathin Pd Nanosheets used for Enhanced Catalytic Applications
journal, November 2016


Gallic acid-assisted synthesis of Pd uniformly anchored on porous N-rGO as efficient electrocatalyst for microbial fuel cells
journal, January 2018

  • Wu, Xiao-Tong; Li, Jie-Cheng; Pan, Qiu-Ren
  • Dalton Transactions, Vol. 47, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7dt04063f

Unlocking the door to highly active ORR catalysts for PEMFC applications: polyhedron-engineered Pt-based nanocrystals
journal, January 2018

  • Wang, Yan-Jie; Long, Wenyu; Wang, Lele
  • Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 11, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7ee02444d

Defect‐Directed Growth of Symmetrically Branched Metal Nanocrystals
journal, November 2019

  • Smith, Joshua D.; Bladt, Eva; Burkhart, Joseph A. C.
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 132, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201913301

Nanoscale kinetics of asymmetrical corrosion in core-shell nanoparticles
journal, March 2018


Self-assembly of noble metal nanoparticles into sub-100 nm colloidosomes with collective optical and catalytic properties
journal, January 2017

  • Zhang, Lei; Fan, Qikui; Sha, Xiao
  • Chemical Science, Vol. 8, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7sc01841j