Preparation of an ultrathin Pt electrocatalyst via a galvanic replacement reaction of electrodeposited CuCl for the oxidation of methanol in an alkaline medium

Long Chao; Nian Liu; Xiujuan Xiong; Fang He; Ting Huang; Qingji Xie; Shouzhuo Yao

doi:10.1039/c8cc00879e

Preparation of an ultrathin Pt electrocatalyst via a galvanic replacement reaction of electrodeposited CuCl for the oxidation of methanol in an alkaline medium

Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Apr 10;54(30):3743-3746. doi: 10.1039/c8cc00879e.

Authors

Long Chao¹, Nian Liu, Xiujuan Xiong, Fang He, Ting Huang, Qingji Xie, Shouzhuo Yao

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (MOE of China), National & Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for New Petro-chemical Materials and Fine Utilization of Resources, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China. xieqj@hunnu.edu.cn.

PMID: 29589627
DOI: 10.1039/c8cc00879e

Abstract

An ultrathin Pt electrocatalyst is prepared by the electrodeposition of a thin and uniform CuCl semiconductor film on an Au electrode followed by a galvanic replacement reaction with K2PtCl4, which shows an ultrahigh Pt-mass specific electrocatalytic activity of 23.7 mA μgPt-1 for methanol oxidation in an alkaline medium.