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Platinum nanoparticles on defect-rich nitrogen-doped hollow carbon as an efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reactions

Abstract

Design and synthesis of efficient electrocatalysts with low usage of precious metal and of high stability are essential for their practical applications in hydrogen evolution reactions. In this work, we synthesize an electrocatalyst through the deposition of platinum nanoparticles on defect-rich nitrogen-doped hollow carbon derived from surface-attached poly(4-vinylpyridine) monolayers. The platinum nanoparticles with an average diameter of about 1.8 nm are well dispersed on the outer surface of the pre-synthesized carbon material and the platinum loading is about 8.6 wt%. The mass activity of the as-synthesized catalyst under an overpotential of 55 mV is about 5.0 A mgPt−1, about 4.93 times higher than that of commercial Pt/C catalysts. Moreover, the synthesized catalyst is also more electrochemically stable than commercial Pt/C catalysts as evidenced by continuous cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometric response measurements.

Graphical abstract: Platinum nanoparticles on defect-rich nitrogen-doped hollow carbon as an efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reactions

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Nov 2019
Accepted
09 Dec 2019
First published
03 Jan 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2020,10, 930-937

Platinum nanoparticles on defect-rich nitrogen-doped hollow carbon as an efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reactions

Y. Cheng, M. Fan, W. Lin, Z. Zhang and H. Zhang, RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 930 DOI: 10.1039/C9RA09662K

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