@article{Liu2022, 
author = {Danye Liu and Qing Zeng and Chaoquan Hu and Dong Chen and Hui Liu and Yongsheng Han and Lin Xu and Qingbo Zhang and Jun Yang},
title = {Light doping of tungsten into copper-platinum nanoalloys for boosting their electrocatalytic performance in methanol oxidation},
year = {2022},
journal = {Nano Research Energy},
volume = {1},
pages = {9120017},
keywords = {electrocatalysis, methanol oxidation reaction, lattice strain, d-band center, hydrogen spillover},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.26599/NRE.2022.9120017},
doi = {10.26599/NRE.2022.9120017},
abstract = {Coupling the bi-functional mechanism with compressive lattice strain might be an effective way to boost the electrocatalysis of platinum (Pt)-based nanoparticles for methanol oxidation reaction (MOR). This strategy weakens the chemisorption of poisoning CO-like intermediates generated during MOR on the active Pt sites by lowering their d-band center. In this context, we herein report the synthesis of ternary copper-tungsten-platinum (CuWPt) nanoalloys with light doping of W element by simply co-reducing their precursors at elevated temperature. In this ternary alloy system, the presence of only small amount of W element not only weakens the chemisorption of CO-like intermediates by lowering the Pt d-band center through compressive lattice strain, but also cleans the active Pt sites by "hydrogen spillover effect", endowing the as-prepared CuWPt nanoalloys at an appropriate Cu/W/Pt ratio with good activity for MOR. In specific, the ternary CuWPt alloy nanoparticles at a Cu/W/Pt molar ratio of 21/4/75 show a specific activity of 2.5 mA·cm−2 and a mass activity of 2.11 A·mg−1 with a better durability, outperforming those ternary CuWPt alloy nanoparticles at other Cu/W/Pt ratios, binary CuPt alloys and commercial Pt/C catalyst as well as a large number of reported Pt-based electrocatalysts. In addition, a single direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) assembled using ternary CuWPt nanoalloys as anodic catalysts shows a power density of 24.3 mW·cm−2 and an open-circle voltage of 0.6 V, also much higher than those of the single DMFC assembled from commercial Pt/C catalysts.}
}