Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Platinum Few-Atom Clusters: Significant Enhancement by Doping of Atomic Cobalt
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) plays an important role in dictating the performance of various electrochemical energy technologies. As platinum nanoparticles have served as the catalysts of choice towards ORR, minimizing the cost of the catalysts by diminishing the platinum nanoparticle size has be...
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| author | Bingzhang Lu Qiming Liu Forrest Nichols Rene Mercado David Morris Ning Li Peng Zhang Peng Gao Yuan Ping Shaowei Chen |
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| description | Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) plays an important role in dictating the performance of various electrochemical energy technologies. As platinum nanoparticles have served as the catalysts of choice towards ORR, minimizing the cost of the catalysts by diminishing the platinum nanoparticle size has become a critical route to advancing the technological development. Herein, first-principle calculations show that carbon-supported Pt9 clusters represent the threshold domain size, and the ORR activity can be significantly improved by doping of adjacent cobalt atoms. This is confirmed experimentally, where platinum and cobalt are dispersed in nitrogen-doped carbon nanowires in varied forms, single atoms, few-atom clusters, and nanoparticles, depending on the initial feeds. The sample consisting primarily of Pt2~7 clusters doped with atomic Co species exhibits the best mass activity among the series, with a current density of 4.16 A mgPt−1 at +0.85 V vs. RHE that is almost 50 times higher than that of commercial Pt/C. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a147ba931b7245acaa95f9e447e48b692024-03-03T05:03:47ZengAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Research2639-52742020-01-01202010.34133/2020/9167829Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Platinum Few-Atom Clusters: Significant Enhancement by Doping of Atomic CobaltBingzhang Lu0Qiming Liu1Forrest Nichols2Rene Mercado3David Morris4Ning Li5Peng Zhang6Peng Gao7Yuan Ping8Shaowei Chen9Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 950564, USADepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 950564, USADepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 950564, USADepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 950564, USADepartment of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, 6274 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaInternational Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Electron Microscopy Laboratory, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, ChinaDepartment of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, 6274 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaInternational Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Electron Microscopy Laboratory, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Collaborative Innovation Centre of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, ChinaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 950564, USADepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 950564, USAOxygen reduction reaction (ORR) plays an important role in dictating the performance of various electrochemical energy technologies. As platinum nanoparticles have served as the catalysts of choice towards ORR, minimizing the cost of the catalysts by diminishing the platinum nanoparticle size has become a critical route to advancing the technological development. Herein, first-principle calculations show that carbon-supported Pt9 clusters represent the threshold domain size, and the ORR activity can be significantly improved by doping of adjacent cobalt atoms. This is confirmed experimentally, where platinum and cobalt are dispersed in nitrogen-doped carbon nanowires in varied forms, single atoms, few-atom clusters, and nanoparticles, depending on the initial feeds. The sample consisting primarily of Pt2~7 clusters doped with atomic Co species exhibits the best mass activity among the series, with a current density of 4.16 A mgPt−1 at +0.85 V vs. RHE that is almost 50 times higher than that of commercial Pt/C.http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/2020/9167829 |
| spellingShingle | Bingzhang Lu Qiming Liu Forrest Nichols Rene Mercado David Morris Ning Li Peng Zhang Peng Gao Yuan Ping Shaowei Chen Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Platinum Few-Atom Clusters: Significant Enhancement by Doping of Atomic Cobalt Research |
| title | Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Platinum Few-Atom Clusters: Significant Enhancement by Doping of Atomic Cobalt |
| title_full | Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Platinum Few-Atom Clusters: Significant Enhancement by Doping of Atomic Cobalt |
| title_fullStr | Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Platinum Few-Atom Clusters: Significant Enhancement by Doping of Atomic Cobalt |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Platinum Few-Atom Clusters: Significant Enhancement by Doping of Atomic Cobalt |
| title_short | Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Platinum Few-Atom Clusters: Significant Enhancement by Doping of Atomic Cobalt |
| title_sort | oxygen reduction reaction catalyzed by carbon supported platinum few atom clusters significant enhancement by doping of atomic cobalt |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/2020/9167829 |
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