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Huge Instability of Pt/C Catalysts in Alkaline Medium

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Zadick, Anicet, Dubau, Laetitia, Sergent, Nicolas, Berthomé, Grégory, Chatenet, Marian·2015·ACS Catalysis

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The stability of carbon-supported electrocatalysts has been largely investigated in acidic electrolytes, but the literature is much scarcer regarding similar stability studies in alkaline medium. Herein, the degradation of Vulcan XC-72-supported platinum nanoparticles (noted Pt/C), a state-of-the-art proton exchange membrane fuel cell electrocatalyst, is investigated in alkaline medium by combining electrochemical measurements and identical location transmission electron microscopy; electrochemical surface area (ECSA) losses were bridged to electrocatalyst morphological changes. The results demonstrate that the degradation in 0.1 M NaOH at 25 °C is severe (60% of ECSA loss after only 150 cycles between 0.1 and 1.23 V vs RHE), which is about 3 times worse than in acidic media for this soft accelerated stress test. Severe carbon corrosion has been ruled out according to Raman spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements, and it seems that the chemistry of the carbon support (in particular, the interface (chemical bounding)) between the Pt nanoparticles and their carbon substrate does play a significant role in the observed degradations.

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Authors
Zadick, A., Dubau, L., Sergent, N., Berthomé, G., & Chatenet, M.
Venue
ACS Catalysis
Published
2015-07-21
Volume
5
Issue
8
Pages
4819-4824
ISSN
2155-5435 (ISSN-L)
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W2514882193
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422
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21
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9.58
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journal article
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en
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Zadick, A., Dubau, L., Sergent, N., Berthomé, G., & Chatenet, M. (2015). Huge Instability of Pt/C Catalysts in Alkaline Medium. ACS Catalysis. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5b01037

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