Anomalous Size Effect of Pt Ultrathin Nanowires on Oxygen Reduction Reaction

The classical size effect of Pt particles on oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) suggests that the activity and durability would decrease with reducing the particle size, self-limiting the effectiveness in maximizing the Pt utilization efficiency with the particle-size-reduction strategy. Herein, we dis...

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Published in:Nano letters 2021-11, Vol.21 (21), p.9354-9360
Main Authors: Yao, Zhaoyu, Yuan, Yuliang, Cheng, Tao, Gao, Lei, Sun, Tulai, Lu, Yangfan, Zhou, Yi-Ge, Galindo, Pedro L, Yang, Zhilong, Xu, Liang, Yang, Hao, Huang, Hongwen
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Language:English
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Summary:The classical size effect of Pt particles on oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) suggests that the activity and durability would decrease with reducing the particle size, self-limiting the effectiveness in maximizing the Pt utilization efficiency with the particle-size-reduction strategy. Herein, we discover an anomalous size effect based on Pt nanowires (NWs) with tunable diameters, where the monotonically increasing activity and durability for ORR were observed with decreasing the diameter from 2.4 to 1.1 nm. Our results reveal that the dominant role of increased compressive strain induced by decreasing the diameter of NWs in weakening the adsorption and suppressing the Pt dissolution accounts for this anomalous size effect, where the reduced low-coordinated sites on NWs, the intrinsic structural advantage, is the root. Our findings not only expand the knowledge to the classical size effect but also provide new implications to break through the size limit in the design of Pt-based ORR catalysts.
ISSN:1530-6984
1530-6992
DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03805