Citation: Sheng-Ding XUE, Jun GU, Meng-Fei HAN, Su-Jun ZHU, Tao YU. Preparation of platinum catalysts supported on oxygen-boron co-modification multi-wall carbon nanotubes and their oxygen reducing activity[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2023, 39(2): 281-290. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2022.262 shu

Preparation of platinum catalysts supported on oxygen-boron co-modification multi-wall carbon nanotubes and their oxygen reducing activity

Sheng-Ding XUE ¹ ,
Jun GU ^{1, 2, 3,,} ,
Meng-Fei HAN ¹ ,
Su-Jun ZHU ¹ ,
Tao YU ^{1, 4}

1.
School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
2.
Nanjing Doinpower Technology Co., Ltd., Nanjing 211100, China
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National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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Nantong Institute of Materials Engineering Nanjing University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226019, China

Corresponding author: Jun GU, junguca@nju.edu.cn
Received Date: 22 July 2022
Revised Date: 21 October 2022

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We synthesized an oxygen-boron co-decorated multi-walled carbon nanotube material by a simple method. After that, it was used as a carrier to prepare platinum-based catalysts and carried out a variety of characterizations. The results indicated that the platinum particles supported on this carrier showed smaller particle size, higher electrochemical surface area (40 m²·g_Pt^-1), and higher oxygen reduction activity (0.3 A·mg_Pt^-1). Predictably, boron and oxygen play an important role in improving the dispersion of carbon nanotubes, controlling the uniformity and size of platinum particles, and promoting oxygen adsorption/dissociation in the oxygen reduction reaction.
- catalyst,
- carbon nanotubes,
- platinum,
- boron,
- oxygen-reducing activity
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