Peptide-Assisted 2-D Assembly toward Free-Floating Ultrathin Platinum Nanoplates as Effective Electrocatalysts

Enbo Zhu; Xucheng Yan; Shiyi Wang; Mingjie Xu; Chen Wang; Haotian Liu; Jin Huang; Wang Xue; Jin Cai; Hendrik Heinz; Yujing Li; Yu Huang

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00867

Peptide-Assisted 2-D Assembly toward Free-Floating Ultrathin Platinum Nanoplates as Effective Electrocatalysts

Enbo Zhu
, Xucheng Yan
, Shiyi Wang
, Mingjie Xu
, Chen Wang
, Haotian Liu
, Jin Huang
, Wang Xue
, Jin Cai
, Hendrik Heinz
, Yujing Li^*
, Yu Huang

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Material Science and Engineering

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Abstract

We demonstrate the 2-D anisotropic formation of ultrathin free-floating Pt nanoplates from the assembly of small nanocrystals using T7 peptide (Ac-TLTTLTN-CONH₂). As-formed nanoplates are rich in grain boundaries that can promote their catalytic activities. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a minor number of Pd atoms can selectively deposit on and stabilize the grain boundaries, which leads to enhanced structure stability. The Pd-enhanced Pt polycrystal nanoplates show great oxygen reduction reaction activities with 15.5 times higher specific activity and 13.7 times higher mass activity than current state-of-the-art commercial Pt/C electrocatalysts as well as 2.5 times higher mass activity for hydrogen evolution reaction compared with Pt/C.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3730-3736
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	19
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00867
Publication status	Published - 12 Jun 2019

Keywords

2-D assembly
Ultrathin platinum nanoplates
electrocatalyst
peptide

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Peptide-Assisted 2-D Assembly toward Free-Floating Ultrathin Platinum Nanoplates as Effective Electrocatalysts

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