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Wet-milling synthesis of immobilized Pt/Ir nanoclusters as promising heterogeneous catalysts

Peng Du1,2, Kai Huang1( ), Xiaoyuan Fan1, Jingteng Ma1, Naveed Hussain3, Ruyue Wang1, Bohan Deng2, Binghui Ge4, Haolin Tang5, Ru Zhang1, Ming Lei1( ), Hui Wu2( )
State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications & School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
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Making use of the strong metal–support interaction (SMSI) and mechanochemical reaction, ultrafine Pt/Ir nanoclusters immobilized on diverse substrates are fabricated via an efficient and scalable wet milling method, which can be extended to mass production for industrial application. As prepared Pt/Ir@Co3O4 demonstrated superior oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalytic activities and stabilities in alkaline electrolyte, superior to the commercial iridium/carbon and other previously reported catalysts.

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Being a typical state of the art heterogeneous catalyst, supported noble metal catalyst often demonstrates enhanced catalytic properties. However, a facile synthetic method for realizing large-scale and low-cost supported noble metal catalyst is strictly indispensable. To this end, by making use of the strong metal–support interaction (SMSI) and mechanochemical reaction, we introduce an efficient synthetic route to obtain ultrafine Pt and Ir nanoclusters immobilized on diverse substrates by wet chemical milling. We further demonstrate the scaling-up effect of our approach by large-scale ball-milling production of Pt nanoclusters immobilized on TiO2 substrate. The synthesized Pt/Ir@Co3O4 catalysts exhibit superior oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance with only 230 and 290 mV overpotential to achieve current density of 10 and 100 mA·cm−2, beating the catalytic performance of Co3O4 supported Pt or Ir clusters and commercial Ir/C. It is envisioned that the present work strategically directs facile ways for fabricating supported noble metal heterogeneous catalysts.

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heterogeneous catalystsmetal clusterswet millinglarge-scale productionstrong metal–support interaction

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Nano Research
Volume 15 Issue 4,
April 2022
Pages 3065-3072
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3963-1
Cite this article:
Du P, Huang K, Fan X, et al. Wet-milling synthesis of immobilized Pt/Ir nanoclusters as promising heterogeneous catalysts. Nano Research, 2022, 15(4): 3065-3072. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3963-1
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Received: 10 August 2021
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Published: 12 December 2021
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