Five-Fold Twinned Pd2NiAg Nanocrystals with Increased Surface Ni Site Availability to Improve Oxygen Reduction Activity

By Liu, Suli; Zhang, Qinghua; Li, Yafei; Han, Min; Gu, Lin; Nan, Cewen; Bao, Jianchun & Dai, Zhihui
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society NULL 2015

Abstract

The synthesis of highly active oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts with good durability and low cost is highly desirable but still remains a significant challenge. In this work, we present the synthesis of five-fold twinned Pd2NiAg nanocrystals (NCs) with a Ni-terminal surface which exhibit excellent electrocatalytic performance for ORR in alkaline media, even better than the performance of the commercial Pt/C catalyst. Using high-angle annular-dark-field imaging together with density functional theory calculations, it is found that the surfaces of the five-fold twinned Pd2NiAg NCs exhibit an unusual valence electron density. The maxim

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