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Fishbone-like platinum-nickel nanowires as an efficient electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation

Jinquan Chang1,2, Luting Song1, Yuanqing Xu1, Yanhong Ma1, Cheng Liang1, Wenyu Jiang1, Yong Zhang1,2( )
CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Platinum (Pt)-based electrocatalyst with low Pt content and high electrocatalytic performance is highly desired in fuel cell applications. Herein, we demonstrated that platinum-nickel (Pt-Ni) nanowires with an average composition of PtNi3 and a fishbone structure can be readily synthesized and used as an efficient electrocatalyst toward methanol oxidation reaction (MOR). The PtNi3 fishbone-like nanowires (PtNi3-FBNWs) present features such as richer Pt on the surface than in the bulk, high-index facets on the rough surface, and polyhedral facets at the ends of side chains. Such compositional and structural features could be determinative to the enhanced performance in the electrocatalysis of MOR. Compared with commercial 20% Pt/carbon black (Pt/C), the specific activity and mass activity of the PtNi3-FBNWs are enhanced by approximately 4.76 and 3.02 times, respectively. The stability of electrocatalysis is significantly improved as well. Such comprehensive enhancement indicates that the PtNi3-FBNWs would be a promising candidate toward MOR in fuel cells.

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Pt-Ni nanowires (NWs)electrocatalysisspecific activitymass activitymethanol oxidation reaction (MOR)

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Nano Research
Volume 13 Issue 1,
January 2020
Pages 67-71
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-019-2573-7
Cite this article:
Chang J, Song L, Xu Y, et al. Fishbone-like platinum-nickel nanowires as an efficient electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation. Nano Research, 2020, 13(1): 67-71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-019-2573-7
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Binary alloysCatalysis Electrocatalysis ElectrocatalystsFuel cellsNanowiresNickelOxidationPlatinum

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Received: 17 July 2019
Revised: 25 October 2019
Accepted: 20 November 2019
Published: 29 November 2019
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