Novel Hybrid Catalyst for the Oxidation of Organic Acids: Pd Nanoparticles Supported on Mn-N-3D-Graphene Nanosheets

Perry, Albert; Kabir, Sadia; Matanovic, Ivana; Chavez, Madelaine Seow; Artyushkova, Kateryna; Serov, Alexey; Atanassov, Plamen

doi:10.1002/celc.201700285

Title: Novel Hybrid Catalyst for the Oxidation of Organic Acids: Pd Nanoparticles Supported on Mn-N-3D-Graphene Nanosheets

Journal Article · Fri Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · ChemElectroChem

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201700285· OSTI ID:1396121

Perry, Albert ^[1]; Kabir, Sadia ^[1]; Matanovic, Ivana ^[2]; Chavez, Madelaine Seow ^[1]; Artyushkova, Kateryna ^[1]; Serov, Alexey ^[1]; Atanassov, Plamen ^[1]

Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Abstract This paper reports the fabrication and electrochemical performance of a hybrid catalyst composed of Pd nanoparticles and atomically dispersed Mn active centers integrated into the nitrogen‐doped three‐dimensional graphene nanosheets (Pd/Mn−N‐3D‐GNS). Our results show that the synergistic integration of both Pd nanoparticles and atomically dispersed Mn can be used to enhance the activity toward the electrochemical oxidation of organic acids at biologically relevant pH values. The hybrid catalyst (Pd/Mn−N‐3D‐GNS) showed increased maximum currents toward the oxidation of oxalic acid when compared to its individual catalysts, namely, Pd/3D‐GNS and Mn−N‐3D‐GNS catalysts. The hybrid also showed a decreased onset potential for oxidation of mesoxalic acid as compared to Mn−N‐3D‐GNS and decreased onset potentials for the oxidation of glyoxalic acid when compared to both of its constituent catalysts. Oxidation of formic acid was also tested and the hybrid was shown to catalyze both dehydration and dehydrogenation mechanisms of formic acid electro‐oxidation. Using density functional theory calculations, it was elucidated that a two‐site catalysis most likely promotes dehydrogenation reaction for formic acid oxidation, which can explain the selectivity of Pd nanoparticles and atomically dispersed Mn towards the dehydrogenation/dehydration pathway.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1396121

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1389887

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-21295

Journal Information:: ChemElectroChem, Vol. 4, Issue 9; ISSN 2196-0216

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