Electrocatalysts: Facile Construction of Pt-Co/CNx Nanotube Electrocatalysts and Their Application to the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (Adv. Mater. 48/2009)

Shujuan Jiang; Yanwen Ma; Guoqiang Jian; Haisheng Tao; Xizhang Wang; Yining Fan; Yinong Lu; Zheng Hu; Yi Chen

doi:10.1002/adma.200990183

Electrocatalysts: Facile Construction of Pt-Co/CNx Nanotube Electrocatalysts and Their Application to the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (Adv. Mater. 48/2009)

Adv Mater. 2009 Dec 28;21(48). doi: 10.1002/adma.200990183.

Authors

Shujuan Jiang¹, Yanwen Ma^{1

2}, Guoqiang Jian¹, Haisheng Tao¹, Xizhang Wang¹, Yining Fan¹, Yinong Lu³, Zheng Hu¹, Yi Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE and Jiangsu Provincial Lab for Nanotechnology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Nanjing, 210093 (P. R. China).
² Jiangsu Key Lab for Organic Electronics and Information Displays Institute of Advanced Materials Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Nanjing, 210003 (P. R. China).
³ College of Materials Science and Engineering Nanjing University of Technology Nanjing 210009 (P. R. China).

PMID: 25376848
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200990183

Abstract

Pt-Co alloyed nanoparticles can be facilely immobilized onto CNx nanotubes due to the incorporated nitrogen, report Yanwen Ma, Zheng Hu, and co-workers on p. 4953. The as-prepared electrocatalysts exhibit good performance for oxygen reduction reactions in acidic media arising from the high dispersion and alloying effect of Pt-Co nanoparticles, as well as the intrinsic catalytic capacity of CNx nanotubes, which is significant for the development of fuel cells.

Keywords: Alloys; Carbon nanotubes; Electrochemistry; Fuel cells; Nanoparticles.