Role of Chemical Composition in the Enhanced Catalytic Activity of Pt-Based Alloyed Ultrathin Nanowires for the Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction under Alkaline Conditions

Scofield, Megan E.; Zhou, Yuchen; Yue, Shiyu; Wang, Lei; Su, Dong; Tong, Xiao; Vukmirovic, Miomir B.; Adzic, Radoslav R.; Wong, Stanislaus S.

doi:10.1021/acscatal.6b00350

Title: Role of Chemical Composition in the Enhanced Catalytic Activity of Pt-Based Alloyed Ultrathin Nanowires for the Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction under Alkaline Conditions

Journal Article · Thu May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · ACS Catalysis

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.6b00350· OSTI ID:1329484

Scofield, Megan E. ^[1]; Zhou, Yuchen ^[1]; Yue, Shiyu ^[1]; Wang, Lei ^[1]; Su, Dong ^[2]; Tong, Xiao ^[2]; Vukmirovic, Miomir B. ^[3]; Adzic, Radoslav R. ^[3]; Wong, Stanislaus S. ^[4]

Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, United States
Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 735, Upton, New York 11973, United States
Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 555, Upton, New York 11973, United States
Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, United States, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 480, Upton, New York 11973, United States

With the increased interest in the development of hydrogen fuel cells as a plausible alternative to internal combustion engines, recent work has focused on creating alkaline fuel cells (AFC), which employ an alkaline environment. Working in alkaline as opposed to acidic media yields a number of tangible benefits, including (i) the ability to use cheaper and plentiful precious-metal-free catalysts, due to their increased stability, (ii) a reduction in the amount of degradation and corrosion of Pt-based catalysts, and (iii) a longer operational lifetime for the overall fuel cell configuration. However, in the absence of Pt, no catalyst has achieved activities similar to those of Pt. Herein, we have synthesized a number of crystalline ultrathin PtM alloy nanowires (NWs) (M = Fe, Co, Ru, Cu, Au) in order to replace a portion of the costly Pt metal without compromising on activity while simultaneously adding in metals known to exhibit favorable synergistic ligand and strain effects with respect to the host lattice. In fact, our experiments confirm theoretical insights about a clear and correlative dependence between measured activity and chemical composition. We have conclusively demonstrated that our as-synthesized alloy NW catalysts yield improved hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) activities as compared with a commercial Pt standard as well as with our as-synthesized Pt NWs. The Pt₇Ru₃ NW system, in particular, quantitatively achieved an exchange current density of 0.493 mA/cm², which is higher than the corresponding data for Pt NWs alone. In addition, the HOR activities follow the same expected trend as their calculated hydrogen binding energy (HBE) values, thereby confirming the critical importance and correlation of HBE with the observed activities.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC-00112704; SC00112704

OSTI ID:: 1329484

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1257946

Report Number(s):: BNL-112207-2016-JA

Journal Information:: ACS Catalysis, Journal Name: ACS Catalysis Vol. 6 Journal Issue: 6; ISSN 2155-5435

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