Direct Synthesis of Pd2+‐Rich Palladene Aerogels as Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Formic Acid Oxidation Reaction and Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Abstract

Abstract In this work, we developed a direct strategy to fabricate Palladene (i. e. Palladium metallene) aerogels and propose a temperature‐dependent growth mechanism. Besides the typical three‐dimensional networks and wrinkled surface morphologies, the as‐prepared Palladene50 aerogel is endowed with abundant Pd2+. The as‐prepared Palladene50 aerogel exhibits an excellent mass activity in the formic acid oxidation reaction and a good half‐wave potential in the oxygen reduction reaction in comparison with Pd/C and a Pd aerogel. This work expands the range of metal aerogels from the perspective of the building block units and demonstrates a direct approach to fabricate highly promising bifunctional electrocatalysts for fuel cells.

Keywords

• metallene aerogels
• self-assembly
• Pd oxidation state
• bifunctional electrocatalysts