Deposition of Atomically Thin Pt Shells on Amorphous Palladium Phosphide Cores for Enhancing the Electrocatalytic Durability.
ACS Nano
; 15(4): 7348-7356, 2021 Apr 27.
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As an excellent electrocatalyst, platinum (Pt) is often deposited as a thin layer on a nanoscale substrate to achieve high utilization efficiency. However, the practical application of the as-designed catalysts has been substantially restricted by the poor durability arising from the leaching of cores. Herein, by employing amorphous palladium phosphide (a-Pd-P) as substrates, we develop a class of leaching-free, ultrastable core-shell Pt catalysts with well-controlled shell thicknesses and surface structures for fuel cell electrocatalysis. When a submonolayer of Pt is deposited on the 6 nm nanocubes, the resulting Pd@a-Pd-P@PtSML core-shell catalyst can deliver a mass activity as high as 4.08 A/mgPt and 1.37 A/mgPd+Pt toward the oxygen reduction reaction at 0.9 V vs the reversible hydrogen electrode and undergoes 50â¯000 potential cycles with only â¼9% activity loss and negligible structural deformation. As elucidated by the DFT calculations, the superior durability of the catalysts originates from the high corrosion resistance of the disordered a-Pd-P substrates and the strong interfacial Pt-P interactions between the Pt shell and amorphous Pd-P layer.
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