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Preparation of Silver-Palladium Alloyed Nanoparticles for Plasmonic Catalysis under Visible-Light Illumination
Published on: August 18, 2020
One-pot synthesis of branched palladium nanodendrites with superior electrocatalytic performance
Qiang Gao1, Min-Rui Gao, Jian-Wei Liu
1Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, The National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.
Abstract:
Branched Pd nanodendrites have been synthesized by a very simple method, which have displayed substantially enhanced oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity compared with that of commercial Pd/C catalysts. The Pd nanodendrites show 4.8 times more activity on the basis of an equivalent noble metal mass for the ORR than the commercial Pd/C catalysts. Moreover, the Pd nanodendrite catalysts also exhibit superior ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) activity, making them excellent candidates as high performance multifunctional catalysts for both ORR and EOR.
