120th General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Electrochemistry
Room No. Exhibition Hall 2+3
Time 10월 20일 (금요일) 13:00~14:30
Code ELEC.P-451
Subject Facile sonochemical synthesis of PdCu alloy as highly active elctrocatalysts for methanol oxidation reaction
Authors WEN JUAN SHI, Hyun-Uk Park, Ah-Hyeon Park, Jongun Jung, Young-Uk Kwon*
Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Abstract The high performance of Pd-based bimetallic nanocatalysts has the potential to replace Pt-containing catalysts for the direct methanol fuel cells. Conventionally, bimetallic particles are obtained through the annealing of nanoparticles. However, this research demonstrates a simple sonochemical synthesis method to fabricate the palladium-copper alloy (PdCu alloy). Our approaches involve the reduction of Pd and Cu using ethylene glycol as the solvent and reduction agent and Ketjen Black as the carbon support. The crystal structures, alloy compositions and morphologies of catalysts are determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), respectively. XRD patterns of samples show the formation of the face-centered cubic crystalline Pd on the carbon support for the PdCu/C catalysts. TEM images show that the PdCu alloy nanoparticles (NPs) are well-dispersed on the carbon support, and the sizes of the nanoparticles can be controlled by adjusting the composition of the raw mixtures. Moreover, EDS results indicate the uniform compositions of Cu and Pd atom. The electrocatalytic properties of PdCu alloys have been investigated by rotating disk electrode (RDE). The PdCu alloy with atomic ratio of 30.8% Cu exhibits a higher electrocatalytic activity and lower onset potential in 0.1 M KOH electrolyte containing 1 M methanol solution.
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