A universal synthesis strategy of Pd-based trimetallic nanowires for efficient alcohol electrooxidation

Liang Ji; Xiaoyue Zhang; Ningkang Qian; Junjie Li; Sudan Shen; Xingqiao Wu; Xin Tan; Hui Zhang; Deren Yang

doi:10.1039/d3nr06200g

A universal synthesis strategy of Pd-based trimetallic nanowires for efficient alcohol electrooxidation

Nanoscale. 2024 Feb 15;16(7):3685-3692. doi: 10.1039/d3nr06200g.

Authors

Liang Ji¹, Xiaoyue Zhang², Ningkang Qian¹, Junjie Li¹, Sudan Shen³, Xingqiao Wu², Xin Tan^{2

4}, Hui Zhang^{1

5}, Deren Yang¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People's Republic of China. msezhanghui@zju.edu.cn.
² Institute for Carbon Neutralization, College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China. xintan@wzu.edu.cn.
³ State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Integrated Materials Design Laboratory, Department of Materials Physics, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
⁵ Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Power Semiconductor Materials and Devices, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 38288750
DOI: 10.1039/d3nr06200g

Abstract

Trimetallic nanowires (NWs) have drawn much attention in efficient alcohol oxidation reaction (AOR) due to their unique features, including high atomic utilization efficiency and fast electron transfer ability. However, a universal strategy to synthesize Pd-based trimetallic NWs with high catalytic performance is still lacking. Herein, we develop a universal method for facile synthesis of PdBiM (M = Pt, Ru, Ir, Co, Cu) NWs with excellent AOR activities. By taking PdBiPt NWs as an example, the formation mechanism was investigated, and it is found that introduction of bismuth (Bi) plays an important role in facilitating the formation of the NW structure. Moreover, the PdBiPt NWs deliver an outstanding performance toward both the ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) and the methanol oxidation reaction (MOR). Density functional theory (DFT) calculations together with experimental results disclose that the moderate electronic structure of trimetallic PdBiPt NWs can optimize the adsorption of OH_ads and weaken the adsorption of CO_ads, thereby leading to the substantially enhanced AOR performance. We believe that this work can inspire the design of multimetallic NWs as high-performance catalysts.