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Facile ultrafine copper seed-mediated approach for fabricating quasi-two-dimensional palladium-copper bimetallic trigonal hierarchical nanoframes

Show Author's Information Min Shen1,2,  Yuanbiao Huang1,  Dongshuang Wu1,  Jian Lü1,  Minna Cao1,  Meimei Liu1,  Yinglong Yang1,  Hongfang Li1,  Binbin Guo1,  Rong Cao1( )
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of MatterChinese Academy of Science, 155 Yangqiao West RoadFuzhou350002China
University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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anisotropy, ethanol oxidation, hierarchical, ultrafine seed mediation, Pd–Cu
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Shen M, Huang Y, Wu D, et al. Facile ultrafine copper seed-mediated approach for fabricating quasi-two-dimensional palladium-copper bimetallic trigonal hierarchical nanoframes. Nano Research, 2017, 10(8): 2810-2822. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1487-5
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Anisotropic Pd nanoparticles with highly branched morphologies are urgently needed as building blocks for nanoscale devices, catalysts, and sensing materials owing to their novel structures and unique physicochemical properties. However, realizing size control and branch manipulation for these materials is very challenging. In this study, we develop a facile ultrafine Cu seed-mediated approach in the aqueous phase to produce novel Pd–Cu trigonal hierarchical nanoframes (THNFs). The main branch of most of the obtained nanocrystals is tripod-like, with advanced branches along the arms as frame units having self-similarity. In this method, the size of the Pd–Cu THNFs can be flexibly controlled by manipulating the nucleation involving the sub-3 nm Cu seeds. These Pd–Cu THNFs outperform Pd black with regard to their ethanol-oxidation performance, having a specific activity and mass activity 9.7 and 6.6 times higher, respectively. This research provides a versatile ultrafine seed-mediated approach for producing size-controlled anisotropic bimetallic nanoframes.


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Facile ultrafine copper seed-mediated approach for fabricating quasi-two-dimensional palladium-copper bimetallic trigonal hierarchical nanoframes

Show Author's information Min Shen1,2, Yuanbiao Huang1, Dongshuang Wu1, Jian Lü1, Minna Cao1, Meimei Liu1, Yinglong Yang1, Hongfang Li1, Binbin Guo1, Rong Cao1( )
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of MatterChinese Academy of Science, 155 Yangqiao West RoadFuzhou350002China
University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China

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Anisotropic Pd nanoparticles with highly branched morphologies are urgently needed as building blocks for nanoscale devices, catalysts, and sensing materials owing to their novel structures and unique physicochemical properties. However, realizing size control and branch manipulation for these materials is very challenging. In this study, we develop a facile ultrafine Cu seed-mediated approach in the aqueous phase to produce novel Pd–Cu trigonal hierarchical nanoframes (THNFs). The main branch of most of the obtained nanocrystals is tripod-like, with advanced branches along the arms as frame units having self-similarity. In this method, the size of the Pd–Cu THNFs can be flexibly controlled by manipulating the nucleation involving the sub-3 nm Cu seeds. These Pd–Cu THNFs outperform Pd black with regard to their ethanol-oxidation performance, having a specific activity and mass activity 9.7 and 6.6 times higher, respectively. This research provides a versatile ultrafine seed-mediated approach for producing size-controlled anisotropic bimetallic nanoframes.

Keywords: anisotropy, ethanol oxidation, hierarchical, ultrafine seed mediation, Pd–Cu

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Received: 22 November 2016
Revised: 16 January 2017
Accepted: 19 January 2017
Published: 06 May 2017
Issue date: August 2017

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We acknowledge financial support from the National Basic Research Program of China (Nos. 2014CB845605 and 2013CB933200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21521061, 21573238, 21331006, 21571177, and 21520102001), Strtegic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDB20000000), the Natural Science Foundation of the Fujian Province (No. 2014J05022), and the Chunmiao Project of the Haixi Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. CMZX-2014-004).

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