Tuning the electrocatalytic activity of Pt by structurally ordered PdFe/C for the hydrogen oxidation reaction in alkaline media

Xiao, Weiping; Lei, Wen; Wang, Jie; Gao, Guoying; Zhao, Tonghui; Cordeiro, Macro A.  L.; Lin, Ruoqian; Gong, Mingxing; Guo, Xuyun; Stavitski, Eli; Xin, Huolin L.; Zhu, Ye; Wang, Deli

doi:10.1039/C8TA03250E

Title: Tuning the electrocatalytic activity of Pt by structurally ordered PdFe/C for the hydrogen oxidation reaction in alkaline media

Journal Article · Fri May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Journal of Materials Chemistry. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C8TA03250E· OSTI ID:1464106

Xiao, Weiping ^[1]; Lei, Wen ^[1]; Wang, Jie ^[2];

^[3]; Zhao, Tonghui ^[1]; Cordeiro, Macro A. L. ^[4]; Lin, Ruoqian ^[4]; Gong, Mingxing ^[1];

^[2]; Stavitski, Eli ^[5]; Xin, Huolin L. ^[4]; Zhu, Ye ^[2];

^[1]

Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan (China). Key Lab. of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Hubei Key Lab. of Material Chemistry and Service Failure and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong (China). Dept. of Applied Physics
Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan (China). School of Physics
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)

Tuning the hydrogen adsorption energy (E_H) by controlling the surface electronic structure of Pt is essential for enhancing the hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) performance in alkaline media. This could be achieved by forming a Pt skin on PdFe/C nanoparticles with structurally ordered intermetallic (O-PdFe@Pt/C) or disordered alloy (D-PdFe@Pt/C). The HOR activity on O-PdFe@Pt/C exhibits an exchange current density of 1.49 A mg_Pt^-1, which is 3.87 and 7.56 times higher than that on D-PdFe@Pt/C (0.385 A mg_Pt^-1) and Pt/C (0.197 A mg_Pt^-1), respectively. The excellent electrocatalytic HOR performance on O-PdFe@Pt/C can be ascribed to the attenuation of E_H on the Pt shell induced by the structurally ordered PdFe core, where the E_H on O-PdFe@Pt surface is 0.18 eV smaller than that on Pt according to DFT calculations.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); 1000 Talents Program (China)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; 21573083; 2017KFYXJJ164; 25301617; 1-ZE6G; AC02-98CH10886

OSTI ID:: 1464106

Report Number(s):: BNL-207956-2018-JAAM; JMCAET

Journal Information:: Journal of Materials Chemistry. A, Vol. 6, Issue 24; ISSN 2050-7488

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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