Peptide-Assisted 2-D Assembly toward Free-Floating Ultrathin Platinum Nanoplates as Effective Electrocatalysts

We demonstrate the 2-D anisotropic formation of ultrathin free-floating Pt nanoplates from the assembly of small nanocrystals using T7 peptide (Ac-TLTTLTN-CONH2). As-formed nanoplates are rich in grain boundaries that can promote their catalytic activities. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a minor number of Pd atoms can selectively deposit on and stabilize the grain boundaries, which leads to enhanced structure stability. The Pd-enhanced Pt polycrystal nanoplates show great oxygen reduction reaction activities with 15.5 times higher specific activity and 13.7 times higher mass activity than current state-of-the-art commercial Pt/C electrocatalysts as well as 2.5 times higher mass activity for hydrogen evolution reaction compared with Pt/C.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

Nano letters - 19(2019), 6 vom: 12. Juni, Seite 3730-3736

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhu, Enbo [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Xucheng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Shiyi [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Mingjie [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chen [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Haotian [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Jin [VerfasserIn]
Xue, Wang [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Jin [VerfasserIn]
Heinz, Hendrik [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yujing [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Yu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2-D assembly
49DFR088MY
5TWQ1V240M
Electrocatalyst
Journal Article
Oxygen
Palladium
Peptide
Peptides
Platinum
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
S88TT14065
Ultrathin platinum nanoplates

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Date Completed 11.12.2019

Date Revised 30.09.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00867

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM296587370