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Strain and Ligand Effects of Transition Metals in Pt Alloys on Oxygen Reduction Reaction
In this study, the number of Pt layers was controlled by using the Cu-UPD-Pt-displacement technique,5 which has been successfully used to deposit Pt monolayer on various substrates. 6 Our experimental results clearly show that the ORR activity decreases with the thickness of the pure Pt shell and the activity enhancement disappears when the Pt shell is ~4 atomic layer thick on the 4.5 nm Pt3Ni nanoparticles. The shell thickness dependent behavior is associated with the oxygen binding energies on the Pt shell. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations performed on nanoparticles are able to estimate the strain and ligand effects from the Pt3Ni core with different Pt shell thickness and the results agree well with the experimental data.
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