Effective Electrochemical Activation of Oleate-Residue-Fouled Pt Nanoparticle Catalysts for Methanol and Formic Acid Oxidation

Sungyool Bong; Byungchul Jang; Donghoon Han; Yuanzhe Piao

doi:10.1021/acsomega.9b02863

Effective Electrochemical Activation of Oleate-Residue-Fouled Pt Nanoparticle Catalysts for Methanol and Formic Acid Oxidation

ACS Omega. 2019 Nov 19;4(23):20330-20334. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.9b02863. eCollection 2019 Dec 3.

Authors

Sungyool Bong¹, Byungchul Jang², Donghoon Han³, Yuanzhe Piao^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Massachusetts 01609, United States.
² Samsung Electro-Mechanics, 150 Maeyeong-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 16674, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Chemistry, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do 14662, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, 145 Gwanggyo-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 16229, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology, 145 Gwanggyo-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 16229, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

Platinum plays a crucial role in the field of basic electrochemistry, regeneration energy, and so on. Pt nanomaterials with well-controlled size and shape could be easily obtained from metal-oleate complexes. However, these nanoparticles (NPs) were electrochemically inactive because of the attached organic residue. This work has been reported as a robust method to remove the residues from the surface of Pt nanoparticle catalysts by the electrochemical treatment in alkaline media. After the electrochemical activation, the Pt nanoparticle catalysts show good catalytic behavior toward the electrochemical oxidation of methanol and formic acid.