3D Platinum-Lead Nanowire Networks as Highly Efficient Ethylene Glycol Oxidation Electrocatalysts

Yonggang Feng; Lingzheng Bu; Shaojun Guo; Jun Guo; Xiaoqing Huang

doi:10.1002/smll.201601620

3D Platinum-Lead Nanowire Networks as Highly Efficient Ethylene Glycol Oxidation Electrocatalysts

Small. 2016 Sep;12(33):4464-70. doi: 10.1002/smll.201601620. Epub 2016 Jul 14.

Authors

Yonggang Feng¹, Lingzheng Bu¹, Shaojun Guo^{2

3}, Jun Guo⁴, Xiaoqing Huang¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Jiangsu, 215123, China.
² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
³ Department of Energy and Resources Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
⁴ Testing & Analysis Center, Soochow University, Jiangsu, 215123, China.

PMID: 27412405
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201601620

Abstract

A large-scalable wet-chemical approach to create networked Pt-Pb nanowires (NWs) with tunable compositions is reported. Due to their 3D networked structure, alloy effect, rich defects/steps, and antipoisoning property of Pb, the networked Pt-Pb NWs exhibit the best activity and durability towards ethylene glycol oxidation reaction (EGOR), compared with the networked Pt NWs and Pt/C.

Keywords: 3D; lead; liquid fuel electrooxidation; nanowire networks; platinum.