Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Amorphous nickel boride membrane on a platinum–nickel alloy surface for enhanced oxygen reduction reaction

  • Daping He,
  • Libo Zhang,
  • Dongsheng He,
  • Gang Zhou,
  • Yue Lin,
  • Zhaoxiang Deng,
  • Xun Hong,
  • Yuen Wu,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Yadong Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12362
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Low activity of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells is a barrier for commercial applications. Here the authors report a nickel boride membrane-coated Pt-Ni catalyst, achieving 27-fold enhancement in mass activity for ORR relative to commercial Pt/C.