Developing highly active, low-cost and organic surfactants-free Pd-based catalysts for ethanol oxidation reaction（EOR） is now critically important for direct ethanol fuel cells. Herein, surface-clean low-doped PdB/C...Developing highly active, low-cost and organic surfactants-free Pd-based catalysts for ethanol oxidation reaction（EOR） is now critically important for direct ethanol fuel cells. Herein, surface-clean low-doped PdB/C catalysts（typically ca. 1.5 at% of B） are successfully prepared in an aqueous condition without adding any organic surfactants. TEM characterization shows that as-prepared low-doped Pd B nanoparticles are evenly distributed on carbon support. Cyclic voltommagrams of as-prepared low-doped PdB/C in 0.5 M NaOH ＋ 1 M C2H5OH indicate that its onset oxidation potential of ethanol is ca. 80-120 mV more negative than that on commercial Pd/C. Meanwhile, the EOR mass activity of our home-made catalysts is up to 4018 m A·mg-1 Pd. Moreover, the durability on low-doped PdB/C catalysts is at most 2 times higher than that on commercial Pd/C. Geometric and electronic effects are adopted to understand the above mentioned enhancement of activity and durability. This work may provide a facile, low-cost and green strategy on preparing electrocatalysts toward EOR in alkaline media.展开更多
基金supported by NSFC (No.21603177)the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province (No.2016JY0212)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.2017NGJPY05)the Innovation Funds for SMU students (No. 201710656023)
文摘Developing highly active, low-cost and organic surfactants-free Pd-based catalysts for ethanol oxidation reaction（EOR） is now critically important for direct ethanol fuel cells. Herein, surface-clean low-doped PdB/C catalysts（typically ca. 1.5 at% of B） are successfully prepared in an aqueous condition without adding any organic surfactants. TEM characterization shows that as-prepared low-doped Pd B nanoparticles are evenly distributed on carbon support. Cyclic voltommagrams of as-prepared low-doped PdB/C in 0.5 M NaOH ＋ 1 M C2H5OH indicate that its onset oxidation potential of ethanol is ca. 80-120 mV more negative than that on commercial Pd/C. Meanwhile, the EOR mass activity of our home-made catalysts is up to 4018 m A·mg-1 Pd. Moreover, the durability on low-doped PdB/C catalysts is at most 2 times higher than that on commercial Pd/C. Geometric and electronic effects are adopted to understand the above mentioned enhancement of activity and durability. This work may provide a facile, low-cost and green strategy on preparing electrocatalysts toward EOR in alkaline media.
