Truncated Octahedral Pt₃Ni Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalysts

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Abstract

This communication describes the preparation of carbon-supported truncated-octahedral Pt(3)Ni nanoparticle catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. Besides the composition, size, and shape controls, this work develops a new butylamine-based surface treatment approach for removing the long-alkane-chain capping agents used in the solution-phase synthesis. These Pt(3)Ni catalysts can have an area-specific activity as high as 850 muA/cm(2)(Pt) at 0.9 V, which is approximately 4 times better than the commercial Pt/C catalyst ( approximately 0.2 mA/cm(2)(Pt) at 0.9 V). The mass activity reached 0.53 A/mg(Pt) at 0.9 V, which is close to a factor of 4 increase in mass activity, the threshold value that allows fuel-cell power trains to become cost-competitive with their internal-combustion counterparts. Our results also show that the mass activities of these carbon-supported Pt(3)Ni nanoparticle catalysts strongly depend on the (111) surface fraction, which validates the results of studies based on Pt(3)Ni extended-single-crystal surfaces, suggesting that further development of catalysts with still higher mass activities is highly plausible.

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