One-Pot Synthesis of Highly Anisotropic Five-Fold-Twinned PtCu Nanoframes Used as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction and Methanol Oxidation.

Zhang, Zhicheng; Luo, Zhimin; Chen, Bo; Wei, Chao; Zhao, Jian; Chen, Junze; Zhang, Xiao; Lai, Zhuangchai et al. · Adv Mater · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Five-fold-twinned PtCu nanoframes (NFs) with nanothorns protruding from their edges are synthesized by a facile one-pot method. Compared to commercial Pt/C catalyst, the obtained highly anisotropic five-fold-twinned PtCu NFs show enhanced electrocatalytic performance toward the oxygen reduction reaction and methanol oxidation reaction under alkaline conditions.