Amelioration of the building blocks is a plausible approach to graft aerogels with distinguished properties while preserving the aerogel superiority. However, the incorporation of designated properties into metallic aerogels, especially catalytically beneficial morphologies and transition metal doping, still remains a challenge. Here, we report on the first case of an aerogel electrocatalyst composed entirely of alloyed PdNi hollow nanospheres (HNSs) with controllable chemical composition and shell thickness. The synergy of the transition metal doping, combined with the hollow building blocks and the three dimensional network structure make the PdNi HNS aerogels promising electrocatalysts towards ethanol oxidation, among which the Pd83Ni17 HNS aerogel shows a 5.6-fold enhanced mass activity compared to commercial Pd/C. This work expands the exploitation approach of electrocatalytic properties of aerogels into morphology and composition control of its building blocks.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:bsz:14-qucosa-208514 |
| Date | 26 August 2016 |
| Creators | Cai, Bin, Wen, Dan, Liu, Wei, Herrmann, Anne-Kristin, Benad, Albrecht, Eychmüller, Alexander |
| Contributors | Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Wiley-VCH, |
| Publisher | Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Bin Cai, Dan Wen, Wei Liu, Anne-Kristin Herrmann, Albrecht Benad and Alexander Eychmüller (2015). Function-led Design of Aerogels: Self-assembly of Alloyed PdNi Hollow Nanospheres for Efficient Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie-international Edition, 2015, Vol. 54(44), pp. 13101--13105, which has been published in final form at DOI: 10.1002/anie.201505307. Online ISSN: 1521-3757 |
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