1 State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
A non-intermetallic PtPb/C catalyst of hollow structure is synthesized through a simple reduction method, and exhibits an activity as high as 3.6 times that of commercial Pd black and a much higher stability for electrooxidation of formic acid.