Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2011, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (9): 1519-1524.DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1088.2011.10439

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The Performance of Carbon-Supported Platinum-Decorated Nickel Electrocatalyst for Ethanol Oxidation

WANG Xingli, WANG Hui, LEI Ziqiang, ZHANG Zhe, WANG Rongfang*   

  1. Key Laboratory of Eco-Environment-Related Polymer Materials of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
  • Received:2011-05-31 Revised:2011-07-07 Online:2011-09-09 Published:2015-01-24

Abstract:  A carbon-supported platinum-decorated nickel electrocatalyst (Ni@Pt/C) was prepared by two-step reaction and characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and cyclic voltammetry. Based on the Pt mass, the Ni@Pt/C catalyst exhibits higher activity for ethanol oxidation than the commercial Pt/C catalyst and alloy PtNi/C catalyst. The peak current of Ni@Pt/C reaches 0.37 A/mg, which is 2.33 and 1.78 times as large as those of Pt/C and PtNi/C, respectively. This can be attributed to the modified electronic structure of the Pt surface layer in the Ni@Pt/C catalyst.

Key words: platinum, nickel, modified electrocatalyst, ethanol, oxidation, fuel cell