Facile chemical synthesis of a high-performance Pt/C catalyst displaying a specialized morphology

Abstract

Here, we report a unique process of urea-enhanced glycol reduction for the facile synthesis of Pt/C catalyst with morphology resembling a strawberry and its seeds. It exhibited 0.87 V half-wave potential and 1.57 W cm⁻² power density with Pt loading of 0.1 mg cm⁻²; it lost only ∼2% ECSA and ∼2 mV half-wave potential after 50 000 cycles of accelerated degradation testing (ADT).