Metal-Based Nanocatalysts Via a Universal Design on Cellular Structure

Overview

Journal Adv Sci (Weinh)

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2020 Feb 12

PMID 32042559

Citations 6

Authors

YaJing Zhao

Xin Min

Zhengping Ding

Shuang Chen

Changzhi Ai

Zhenglian Liu

Tianzi Yang

Xiaowen Wu

Yangai Liu

Shiwei Lin

Zhaohui Huang

Peng Gao

Hui Wu

Minghao Fang

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Abstract

Metal-based nanocatalysts supported on carbon have significant prospect for industry. However, a straightforward method for efficient and stable nanocatalysts still remains extremely challenging. Inspired by the structure and comptosition of cell walls and membranes, an ion chemical bond anchoring, an in situ carbonization coreduction process, is designed to obtain composite catalysts on N-doped 2D carbon (C-N) loaded with various noble and non-noble metals (for example, Pt, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Ir, Au, Co, and Ni) nanocatalysts. These 2 nm particles uniformly and stably bond with the C-N support since the agglomeration and growth are suppressed by anchoring the metal ions on the cell wall and membrane during the carbonization and reduction reactions. The Pt@C-N exhibits excellent catalytic activity and long-term stability for the hydrogen evolution reaction, and the relative overpotential at 100 mA cm is only 77 mV, which is much lower than that of commercial Pt/C and Pt single-atom catalysts reported recently.

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