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@ARTICLE{Gan:825922,
author = {Gan, Lin and Rudi, Stefan and Cui, Chunhua and Heggen, Marc
and Strasser, Peter},
title = {{S}ize-controlled synthesis of sub-10 nm {P}t{N}i3 alloy
nanoparticles and their unusual volcano-shaped
size-dependence of {ORR} electrocatalysis},
journal = {Small},
volume = {12},
number = {23},
issn = {1613-6810},
address = {Weinheim},
publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-00201},
pages = {3189 - 3196},
year = {2016},
abstract = {Dealloyed Pt bimetallic core–shell catalysts derived from
low-Pt bimetallic alloy nanoparticles (e.g, PtNi3) have
recently shown unprecedented activity and stability on the
cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) under realistic
fuel cell conditions and become today's catalyst of choice
for commercialization of automobile fuel cells. A critical
step toward this breakthrough is to control their particle
size below a critical value (≈10 nm) to suppress
nanoporosity formation and hence reduce significant base
metal (e.g., Ni) leaching under the corrosive ORR condition.
Fine size control of the sub-10 nm PtNi3 nanoparticles and
understanding their size dependent ORR electrocatalysis are
crucial to further improve their ORR activity and stability
yet still remain unexplored. A robust synthetic approach is
presented here for size-controlled PtNi3 nanoparticles
between 3 and 10 nm while keeping a constant particle
composition and their size-selected growth mechanism is
studied comprehensively. This enables us to address their
size-dependent ORR activities and stabilities for the first
time. Contrary to the previously established monotonic
increase of ORR specific activity and stability with
increasing particle size on Pt and Pt-rich bimetallic
nanoparticles, the Pt-poor PtNi3 nanoparticles exhibit an
unusual “volcano-shaped” size dependence, showing the
highest ORR activity and stability at the particle sizes
between 6 and 8 nm due to their highest Ni retention during
long-term catalyst aging. The results of this study provide
important practical guidelines for the size selection of the
low Pt bimetallic ORR electrocatalysts with further improved
durably high activity.},
cin = {PGI-5},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-5-20110106},
pnm = {143 - Controlling Configuration-Based Phenomena (POF3-143)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-143},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000378654700014},
doi = {10.1002/smll.201600027},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/825922},
}