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Surface active-site engineering in hierarchical PtNi nanocatalysts for efficient triiodide reduction reaction

Show Author's Information Jiabin Cui1,§,  Pin Ma2,4,§,  Weidan Li1,  Rui Jiang1,  Lirong Zheng3,  Yuan Lin2,  Chang Guo1( ),  Xiong Yin1( ),  Leyu Wang1
State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering Innovation Centre for Soft Matter Science and Engineering College of ChemistryBeijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 China
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences Key Laboratory of Photochemistry CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular SciencesInstitute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
Pillar of Engineering Product Development Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore 487372 Singapore

§Jiabin Cui and Pin Ma contributed equally to this work.

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dealloying, hierarchical structure, surface active-site engineering, Pt skin-layer, triiodide reduction reaction
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Cui J, Ma P, Li W, et al. Surface active-site engineering in hierarchical PtNi nanocatalysts for efficient triiodide reduction reaction. Nano Research, 2021, 14(12): 4714-4718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3410-y
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Hierarchical Pt-alloys enriched with active sites are highly desirable for efficient catalysis, but their syntheses generally need time-consuming and elaborate annealing treatment at high temperature. We herein report a surface active-site engineering strategy for constructing the hierarchical PtNi nanocatalysts with an atomic Pt-skin layer (PtNi@Pt-SL) towards efficient triiodide reduction reaction (TRR) via an acid-dealloying approach. The facile acid-dealloying process promotes the formation of surface Pt active sites on the hierarchical Pt-alloys, and thus results in good catalytic performance towards TRR. Theoretical calculation reveals that the enhanced catalytic property stems from the moderate energy barriers for iodide atoms on the surface Pt active-sites. The surface active-site engineering strategy paves a new way for the design of active and durable electrocatalysts.


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Surface active-site engineering in hierarchical PtNi nanocatalysts for efficient triiodide reduction reaction

Show Author's information Jiabin Cui1,§, Pin Ma2,4,§, Weidan Li1, Rui Jiang1, Lirong Zheng3, Yuan Lin2, Chang Guo1( ), Xiong Yin1( ), Leyu Wang1
State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering Innovation Centre for Soft Matter Science and Engineering College of ChemistryBeijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 China
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences Key Laboratory of Photochemistry CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular SciencesInstitute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
Pillar of Engineering Product Development Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore 487372 Singapore

§Jiabin Cui and Pin Ma contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Hierarchical Pt-alloys enriched with active sites are highly desirable for efficient catalysis, but their syntheses generally need time-consuming and elaborate annealing treatment at high temperature. We herein report a surface active-site engineering strategy for constructing the hierarchical PtNi nanocatalysts with an atomic Pt-skin layer (PtNi@Pt-SL) towards efficient triiodide reduction reaction (TRR) via an acid-dealloying approach. The facile acid-dealloying process promotes the formation of surface Pt active sites on the hierarchical Pt-alloys, and thus results in good catalytic performance towards TRR. Theoretical calculation reveals that the enhanced catalytic property stems from the moderate energy barriers for iodide atoms on the surface Pt active-sites. The surface active-site engineering strategy paves a new way for the design of active and durable electrocatalysts.

Keywords: dealloying, hierarchical structure, surface active-site engineering, Pt skin-layer, triiodide reduction reaction

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Received: 30 December 2020
Revised: 12 February 2021
Accepted: 21 February 2021
Published: 29 April 2021
Issue date: December 2021

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The research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21771019), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018YFA0702002), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. XK1901 and buctrc202023). P. Ma is funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2020M672772). We are thankful for 1W1B in Beijing Electron Positron Collider II (BSRF) for X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) measurements.

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