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Research Article | Open Access

Autocatalytic reduction-assisted synthesis of segmented porous PtTe nanochains for enhancing methanol oxidation reaction

Qiqi Zhang1,2, Tianyu Xia3( ), He Huang4, Jialong Liu5( ), Mengyuan Zhu4, Hao Yu4, Weifeng Xu4, Yuping Huo1,2, Congli He1, Shipeng Shen1, Cong Lu6, Rongming Wang7, Shouguo Wang1,4,7,8( )
Institute of Advanced Materials, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Key Laboratory of Materials Physics of the Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Department of Physics and Electronics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hyogo Science and Technology Association, Tatsuno 6795165, Japan
Institute for Multidisciplinary Innovation, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
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Morphology engineering has been developed as one of the most widely used strategies for improving the performance of electrocatalysts. However, the harsh reaction conditions and cumbersome reaction steps during the nanomaterials synthesis still limit their industrial applications. Herein, one-dimensional (1D) novel-segmented PtTe porous nanochains (PNCs) were successfully synthesized by the template methods assisted by Pt autocatalytic reduction. The PtTe PNCs consist of consecutive mesoporous architectures that provide a large electrochemical surface area (ECSA) and abundant active sites to enhance methanol oxidation reaction (MOR). Furthermore, 1D nanostructure as a robust sustaining frame can maintain a high mass/charge transfer rate in a long-term durability test. After 2,000 cyclic voltammetry (CV) cycles, the ECSA value of PtTe PNCs remained as high as 44.47 m2·gPt–1, which was much larger than that of commercial Pt/C (3.95 m2·gPt–1). The high catalytic activity and durability of PtTe PNCs are also supported by CO stripping test and density functional theory calculation. This autocatalytic reduction-assisted synthesis provides new insights for designing efficient low-dimensional nanocatalysts.

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autocatalytic processPtTe catalystsmethanol oxidation reactionsporous nanochain

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Nano Research Energy
Volume 2 Issue 1,
March 2023
Article number: e9120041
DOI: 10.26599/NRE.2023.9120041
Cite this article:
Zhang Q, Xia T, Huang H, et al. Autocatalytic reduction-assisted synthesis of segmented porous PtTe nanochains for enhancing methanol oxidation reaction. Nano Research Energy, 2023, 2: e9120041. https://doi.org/10.26599/NRE.2023.9120041

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Received: 08 August 2022
Revised: 20 October 2022
Accepted: 21 October 2022
Published: 28 November 2022
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