Reversibility of Pt-skin and Pt-skeleton nanostructures in acidic media. Durst, e, J., Lopez-Haro, b, M., Dubau, L., Chatenet, d, M., Soldo-Olivier, Y., Guétaz, L., Bayle-Guillemaud, P., & Maillard, F. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 5(3):434-439, 2014. cited By 12
Reversibility of Pt-skin and Pt-skeleton nanostructures in acidic media [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Following a well-defined series of acid and heat treatments on a benchmark Pt3Co/C sample, three different nanostructures of interest for the electrocatalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction were tailored. These nanostructures could be sorted into the "Pt-skin" structure, made of one pure Pt overlayer, and the "Pt-skeleton" structure, made of 2-3 Pt overlayers surrounding the Pt-Co alloy core. Using a unique combination of high-resolution aberration-corrected STEM-EELS, XRD, EXAFS, and XANES measurements, we provide atomically resolved pictures of these different nanostructures, including measurement of the Pt-shell thickness forming in acidic media and the resulting changes of the bulk and core chemical composition. It is shown that the Pt-skin is reverted toward the Pt-skeleton upon contact with acid electrolyte. This change in structure causes strong variations of the chemical composition. © 2014 American Chemical Society.
@article{ Durst2014434,
  author = {Durst, J.a  e  and Lopez-Haro, M.a  b  and Dubau, L.a  and Chatenet, M.a  d  and Soldo-Olivier, Y.a  and Guétaz, L.c  and Bayle-Guillemaud, P.b  and Maillard, F.a },
  title = {Reversibility of Pt-skin and Pt-skeleton nanostructures in acidic media},
  journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters},
  year = {2014},
  volume = {5},
  number = {3},
  pages = {434-439},
  doi = {10.1021/jz4025707},
  note = {cited By 12},
  url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84893859778&partnerID=40&md5=f195f1bfee0c291c9b07c6426fcc41c9},
  affiliation = {Laboratoire d'Electrochimie et de Physico-chimie des Matériaux et des Interfaces, UMR 5279 CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, 1130 rue de la piscine, BP75, 38402 Saint-Martin-d'Hères cedex, France; CEA, INAC, LEMMA, 38054 Grenoble cedex 9, France; CEA, LITEN, Laboratoire des Composants PEM, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble, France; French University Institute (IUF), France; Department of Technical Electrochemistry, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85748 Garching, Germany},
  abstract = {Following a well-defined series of acid and heat treatments on a benchmark Pt3Co/C sample, three different nanostructures of interest for the electrocatalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction were tailored. These nanostructures could be sorted into the "Pt-skin" structure, made of one pure Pt overlayer, and the "Pt-skeleton" structure, made of 2-3 Pt overlayers surrounding the Pt-Co alloy core. Using a unique combination of high-resolution aberration-corrected STEM-EELS, XRD, EXAFS, and XANES measurements, we provide atomically resolved pictures of these different nanostructures, including measurement of the Pt-shell thickness forming in acidic media and the resulting changes of the bulk and core chemical composition. It is shown that the Pt-skin is reverted toward the Pt-skeleton upon contact with acid electrolyte. This change in structure causes strong variations of the chemical composition. © 2014 American Chemical Society.},
  author_keywords = {EELS;  proton-exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC);  Pt-Co/C nanoparticles;  Pt-skeleton;  Pt-skin;  STEM-HAADF;  XAS},
  document_type = {Article},
  source = {Scopus}
}

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