Small-sized tungsten nitride anchoring into a 3D CNT-rGO framework as a superior bifunctional catalyst for the methanol oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions

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• 作者：Haijing Yan ; Meichen Meng ; Lei Wang ; Aiping Wu ; Chungui Tian ; Lu Zhao…
• 关键词：small ; sized tungsten nitride ; 3D CNT ; rGO ; bifunctional catalyst ; methanol oxidation reaction ; oxygen reduction reaction
• 刊名：Nano Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：9
• 期：2
• 页码：329-343
• 全文大小：3,413 KB
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• 作者单位：Haijing Yan (1)
  Meichen Meng (1)
  Lei Wang (1)
  Aiping Wu (1)
  Chungui Tian (1)
  Lu Zhao (1)
  Honggang Fu (1)
  
  1. Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 150080, China
  
• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Chinese Library of Science
  Chemistry
  Nanotechnology
  
• 出版者：Tsinghua University Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH
• ISSN：1998-0000

文摘

The application of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) is hampered by high cost, low activity, and poor CO tolerance by the Pt catalyst. Herein, we designed a fancy 3D hybrid by anchoring tungsten nitride (WN) nanoparticles (NPs), of about 3 nm in size, into a 3D carbon nanotube-reduced graphene oxide framework (CNT-rGO) using an assembly route. After depositing Pt, the contacted and strongly coupled Pt–WN NPs were formed, resulting in electron transfer from Pt to WN. The 3D Pt–WN/CNT-rGO hybrid can be used as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for both methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). In MOR, the catalysts showed excellent CO tolerance and a high mass activity of 702.4 mA·mg_Pt –1, 2.44 and 3.81 times higher than those of Pt/CNT-rGO and Pt/C(JM) catalysts, respectively. The catalyst also exhibited a more positive onset potential (1.03 V), higher mass activity (151.3 mA·mg_Pt –1), and better cyclic stability and tolerance in MOR than ORR. The catalyst mainly exhibited a 4e-transfer mechanism with a low peroxide yield. The high activity was closely related to hybrid structure. That is, the 3D framework provided a favorable path for mass-transfer, the CNT-rGO support was favorable for charge transfer, and strongly coupled Pt–WN can enhance the catalytic activity and CO-tolerance of Pt. Pt–WN/CNT-rGO represents a new 3D catalytic platform that is promising as an electrocatalyst for DMFC because it can catalyze both ORR and MOR in an acidic medium with good stability and highly efficient Pt utilization.