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Nanoscale

One-pot synthesis of branched palladium nanodendrites with superior electrocatalytic performance†

Qiang Gao,a   Min-Rui Gao,a   Jian-Wei Liu,a   Meng-Yuan Chen,a   Chun-Hua Cui,a   Hui-Hui Lia  and  Shu-Hong Yu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, The National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
E-mail: shyu@ustc.edu.cn
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Abstract

Branched Pd nanodendrites have been synthesized by a very simple method, which have displayed substantially enhanced oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity compared with that of commercial Pd/C catalysts. The Pd nanodendrites show 4.8 times more activity on the basis of an equivalent noble metal mass for the ORR than the commercial Pd/C catalysts. Moreover, the Pd nanodendrite catalysts also exhibit superior ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) activity, making them excellent candidates as high performance multifunctional catalysts for both ORR and EOR.

Graphical abstract: One-pot synthesis of branched palladium nanodendrites with superior electrocatalytic performance

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2NR33345G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
26 Oct 2012
Accepted
05 Dec 2012
First published
07 Dec 2012

Nanoscale, 2013,5, 3202-3207

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One-pot synthesis of branched palladium nanodendrites with superior electrocatalytic performance

Q. Gao, M. Gao, J. Liu, M. Chen, C. Cui, H. Li and S. Yu, Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 3202 DOI: 10.1039/C2NR33345G

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