Enhanced electrocatalytic performance for methanol oxidation of Pt nanoparticles on Mn3O4-modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Xiulin Yang; Xueyun Wang; Guoqiang Zhang; Junpeng Zheng; Taishan Wang; Xianzong Liu; Chunying Shu; Li Jiang; Chunru Wang

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.04.153

Enhanced electrocatalytic performance for methanol oxidation of Pt nanoparticles on Mn₃O₄-modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Xiulin Yang, Xueyun Wang, Guoqiang Zhang, Junpeng Zheng, Taishan Wang, Xianzong Liu, Chunying Shu, Li Jiang^*, Chunru Wang

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Abstract

We report the preparation of well-dispersed Pt nanoparticles depositing on Mn₃O₄-modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes (Mn ₃O₄-MWCNTs) that can be taken as high performance catalyst in methanol electro-oxidation. Various spectrometry techniques such as FT-IR, Raman, XRD, TEM and XPS measurements were performed, revealing that the Pt nanoparticles were highly dispersed on the surface of Mn₃O ₄-modified MWCNTs with a narrow size distribution between 1.7 nm and 3.9 nm. Compared the Pt/MWCNT catalyst without Mn₃O₄ modification, the Pt/Mn₃O₄-MWCNT composite catalyst not only shows relative large electrochemical active surface area (EAS), high catalyzing activity toward methanol electro-oxidation, but also exhibits very high stability with apparent anti-poisoning tolerance to the incomplete oxidized species during methanol oxidation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11167-11175
Number of pages	9
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	37
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.04.153
Publication status	Published - Aug 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Electrocatalysis
Fuel cells
MnO
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes
Pt nanoparticles

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