Pd Nanoparticles Coupled to WO2.72 Nanorods for Enhanced Electrochemical Oxidation of Formic Acid

Xi, Zheng; Erdosy, Daniel P.; Mendoza-Garcia, Adriana; Duchesne, Paul N.; Li, Junrui; Muzzio, Michelle; Li, Qing; Zhang, Peng; Sun, Shouheng

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00870

Pd Nanoparticles Coupled to WO_2.72 Nanorods for Enhanced Electrochemical Oxidation of Formic Acid

Journal Article · Mon Mar 20 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00870· OSTI ID:1372233

^[1]; Erdosy, Daniel P. ^[1]; Mendoza-Garcia, Adriana ^[1]; Duchesne, Paul N. ^[2]; Li, Junrui ^[1]; Muzzio, Michelle ^[1]; ^[3]; Zhang, Peng ^[2]; ^[1]

Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States)
Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS (Canada)
Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan (People’s Republic of China)

In this work, we synthesize a new type of hybrid Pd/WO_2.72 structure with 5 nm Pd nanoparticles (NPs) anchored on 50 × 5 nm WO_2.72 nanorods. The strong Pd/WO_2.72 coupling results in the lattice expansion of Pd from 0.23 to 0.27 nm and the decrease of Pd surface electron density. As a result, the Pd/WO_2.72 shows much enhanced catalysis toward electrochemical oxidation of formic acid in 0.1 M HClO₄; it has a mass activity of ~1600 mA/mg_Pd in a broad potential range of 0.4–0.85 V (vs RHE) and shows no obvious activity loss after a 12 h chronoamperometry test at 0.4 V. Our work demonstrates an important strategy to enhance Pd NP catalyst efficiency for energy conversion reactions.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)

Sponsoring Organization:: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); National Research Council Canada (NRC); National Science Foundation (NSF); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); US Army Research Laboratory (USARL); US Army Research Office (ARO); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1372233

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Journal Name: Nano Letters Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 17; ISSN 1530-6984

Publisher:: American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: ENGLISH

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