Carbon-supported ultra-high loading Pt nanoparticle catalyst by controlled overgrowth of Pt: Improvement of Pt utilization leads to enhanced direct methanol fuel cell performance
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- Title
- Carbon-supported ultra-high loading Pt nanoparticle catalyst by controlled overgrowth of Pt: Improvement of Pt utilization leads to enhanced direct methanol fuel cell performance
- Author
- You, Dae Jong; Kwon, Kyungjung; Joo, Sang Hoon; Kim, Jin Hoe; Kim, Ji Man; Pak, Chanho; Chang, Hyuk
- Keywords
- Catalyst utilization; Direct methanol; Multi-step reduction; Pt nanoparticle; Ultra-high
- Issue Date
- 201204
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY, v.37, no.8, pp.6880 - 6885
- Abstract
- Carbon-supported Pt nanoparticle catalysts with ultra-high loading up to 85% are prepared by multi-step reduction (Pt/C-nR), in which additional Pt precursors are reduced upon a preformed Pt/C catalyst (Pt/C-1R). Transmission electron microscopy images show that the Pt/C-nR catalysts are composed of multilayers of Pt nanoparticles. The multiply stacked morphology in the Pt/C-nR catalysts may originate from the local overgrowth of additionally reduced Pt nanoparticles on the pre-existing Pt nanoparticles in the Pt/C-1R catalyst rather than conformal growth. The electrochemical characterizations by cyclic voltammograms in HClO4 solution reveal that Pt/C-2R catalyst exhibits an increased Pt utilization over the Pt/C-1R catalyst of the same Pt loading on the carbon support where a significant portion of catalytically active surfaces are buried within micropores of carbons. Furthermore, a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) single cell employing Pt/C-2R catalyst exhibits an enhanced DMFC performance compared to a single cell using the Pt/C-1R catalyst, demonstrating the importance of morphological control of Pt nanoparticles that can improve the catalyst utilization.
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- DOI
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.01.103
- ISSN
- 0360-3199
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