Enhancement of electrocatalytic activity of gold nanoparticles by sonochemical treatment
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Yang-Hee Lee1, Gunn Kim, Minwoong Joe
1Department of Chemistry, BK-21 School of Chemical Materials Science, SAINT, HINT, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 8, 2010
Abstract:
We demonstrate that gold nanoparticles can become catalytically active for the electrochemical hydrogen oxidation reaction by a sonication treatment. Experimental data and theoretical calculations indicate that the activity arises from the supercooled molten state of gold nanoparticles which are enriched with coordinatively unsaturated gold atoms.
