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Palladium-Based Alloy Nanoparticles for Direct Liquid Fuel Cells

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Ballroom 6ABC (Washington State Convention Center)
J. Y. Kim (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea University), Y. J. Ko, W. S. Lee (Korea Institute of Science and Technology), and T. Y. Seong (Korea University)
In this study, we report a synthesis of small size, well-dispersed, and durable metal alloy nanoparticles based on palladium for direct liquid fuel cells: It achieved by supramolecular self-assembly of surfactant on the carbon supporter and polymer protective coating with ion impregnation. From the physical analysis, we confirm that the particle size and dispersion uniformity of synthesized Pd-based alloy nanoparticles was comparable to those synthesized by micro-emulsion methods. The resulting palladium based alloy nanoparticles exhibits superior electrocatalytic activities, especially long-term stability, toward electro-oxidation of formic acid and alcohols than those of palladium nanocatalysts. This work not only offers a powerful route to the synthesis of Pd-based alloy catalyst but also provides important possibility to solving the bottleneck of direct liquid fuel cell anode catalyst.