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- Title
Breaking Highly Ordered PtPbBi Intermetallic with Disordered Amorphous Phase for Boosting Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution and Alcohol Oxidation.
- Authors
Feng, Fukai; Ma, Chaoqun; Han, Sumei; Ma, Xiao; He, Caihong; Zhang, Huaifang; Cao, Wenbin; Meng, Xiangmin; Xia, Jing; Zhu, Lijie; Tian, Yahui; Wang, Qi; Yun, Qinbai; Lu, Qipeng
- Abstract
Constructing amorphous/intermetallic (A/IMC) heterophase structures by breaking the highly ordered IMC phase with disordered amorphous phase is an effective way to improve the electrocatalytic performance of noble metal‐based IMC electrocatalysts because of the optimized electronic structure and abundant heterophase boundaries as active sites. In this study, we report the synthesis of ultrathin A/IMC PtPbBi nanosheets (NSs) for boosting hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and alcohol oxidation reactions. The resulting A/IMC PtPbBi NSs exhibit a remarkably low overpotential of only 25 mV at 10 mA cm−2 for the HER in an acidic electrolyte, together with outstanding stability for 100 h. In addition, the PtPbBi NSs show high mass activities for methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) and ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR), which are 13.2 and 14.5 times higher than those of commercial Pt/C, respectively. Density functional theory calculations demonstrate that the synergistic effect of amorphous/intermetallic components and multimetallic composition facilitate the electron transfer from the catalyst to key intermediates, thus improving the catalytic activity of MOR. This work establishes a novel pathway for the synthesis of heterophase two‐dimensional nanomaterials with high electrocatalytic performance across a wide range of electrochemical applications.
- Subjects
HYDROGEN evolution reactions; OXIDATION of methanol; ALCOHOL oxidation; DENSITY functional theory; CHARGE exchange; CATALYTIC activity; ELECTRONIC structure
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2024, Vol 136, Issue 25, p1
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202405173