Issue 99, 2013
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Chemical Communications

WC@meso-Pt core–shell nanostructures for fuel cells†

Zhao-Yang Chen,a   Chun-An Ma,*ab   You-Qun Chu,a   Jia-Mei Jin,b   Xiao Lin,b   Christopher Hardacreb  and  Wen-Feng Lin*b  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, International Sci. & Tech. Cooperation Base of Energy Materials and Application, College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, PR China
E-mail: science@zjut.edu.cn
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b Centre for the Theory and Application of Catalysis (CenTACat), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, UK
E-mail: w.lin@qub.ac.uk

Abstract

We developed a facile method to synthesize core–shell WC@meso-Pt nanocatalysts by carburizing ammonium tungstate and copper nitrate via gas–solid reactions, followed by a Pt replacement reaction. The mesoporous nanocomposite displays higher activity and stability towards methanol electrooxidation than commercial Pt/C catalysts.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC46595K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Aug 2013
Accepted
16 Oct 2013
First published
17 Oct 2013
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 11677-11679

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WC@meso-Pt core–shell nanostructures for fuel cells

Z. Chen, C. Ma, Y. Chu, J. Jin, X. Lin, C. Hardacre and W. Lin, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 11677 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC46595K

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