Tri-metallic PtPdAu mesoporous nanoelectrocatalysts

Nanotechnology. 2018 Jun 22;29(25):255404. doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/aabb47. Epub 2018 Apr 3.

Abstract

The design of mesoporous materials with multi-metallic compositions is highly important for various electrocatalytic applications. In this paper, we demonstrate an efficient method to directly fabricate tri-metallic PtPdAu mesoporous nanoparticles (PtPdAu MNs) in a high yield, which is simply performed by heating treatment of the reaction mixture aqueous solution at 40 °C for 4 h. Profiting from its mesoporous structure and multi-metallic components, the as-prepared PtPdAu MNs exhibit enhanced electrocatalytic activities toward both methanol oxidation reaction and oxygen reduction reaction in comparison with bi-metallic PtPd MNs and commercial Pt/C catalyst.