Alcohol-Tolerant Platinum Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction by Encapsulating Platinum Nanoparticles inside Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanocages

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• 作者：Liming Shen ; Tao Sun ; Ou Zhuo ; Renchao Che ; Danqin Li ; Yucheng Ji ; Yongfeng Bu ; Qiang Wu ; Lijun Yang ; Qiang Chen ; Xizhang Wang ; Zheng Hu
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 6, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：26
• 页码：16664-16669
• 全文大小：385K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1944-8252

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Pt-based electrocatalysts are the most popular for direct alcohol fuel cells, but their performances easily deteriorate for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) at the cathode because of the alcohol crossover effect. Herein, we report the novel Pt electrocatalyst encapsulated inside nitrogen-doped carbon nanocages (Pt@NCNC), which presents excellent alcohol-tolerant ORR activity and durability in acidic media, far superior to the Pt counterpart immobilized outside the nanocages (Pt/NCNC). The superb performance is correlated with the molecule-sieving effect of the micropores penetrating through the shells of the nanocages, which admit the small-sized oxygen and ions but block the large-sized alcohols into the nanocages. This mechanism is confirmed by examining the size dependence of ORR and alcohol oxidation activities by regulating the micropores sizes. This study provides a promising strategy to develop the superior alcohol-tolerant Pt-based ORR electrocatalyst in acidic media.