Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Surface engineering of hierarchical platinum-cobalt nanowires for efficient electrocatalysis

  • Lingzheng Bu,
  • Shaojun Guo,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Xuan Shen,
  • Dong Su,
  • Gang Lu,
  • Xing Zhu,
  • Jianlin Yao,
  • Jun Guo,
  • Xiaoqing Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11850
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Platinum-based nanowires are promising for fuel cell applications due to their high catalytic activity. Here the authors report on hierarchical platinum-cobalt nanowires with high-index facets showing specific/mass activities for oxygen reduction reaction 39.6/33.7 times higher than commercial Pt/C catalyst.