Porous Carbon-Supported Gold Nanoparticles for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Effects of Nanoparticle Size

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• 作者：Likai Wang ; Zhenghua Tang ; Wei Yan ; Hongyu Yang ; Qiannan Wang ; Shaowei Chen
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 17, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：32
• 页码：20635-20641
• 全文大小：498K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1944-8252

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Porous carbon-supported gold nanoparticles of varied sizes were prepared using thiolate-capped molecular Au₂₅, Au₃₈, and Au₁₄₄ nanoclusters as precursors. The organic capping ligands were removed by pyrolysis at controlled temperatures, resulting in good dispersion of gold nanoparticles within the porous carbons, although the nanoparticle sizes were somewhat larger than those of the respective nanocluster precursors. The resulting nanocomposites displayed apparent activity in the electroreduction of oxygen in alkaline solutions, which increased with decreasing nanoparticle dimensions. Among the series of samples tested, the nanocomposite prepared with Au₂₅ nanoclusters displayed the best activity, as manifested by the positive onset potential at +0.95 V vs RHE, remarkable sustainable stability, and high numbers of electron transfer at (3.60–3.92) at potentials from +0.50 to +0.80 V. The performance is comparable to that of commercial 20 wt % Pt/C. The results demonstrated the unique feasibility of porous carbon-supported gold nanoparticles as high-efficiency ORR catalysts.