Interfacial engineering Pb skin-layer at Rh surface to promote ethanol electrooxidation into CO2 in alkaline media

Metal-metal (hydr)oxide interfaces can promote the CO2 selectivity of ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) due to so-called metal-oxide-interaction (MOI). Here, we first show that the mixture of Ir and PbO species at the nanoscale can also form “bifunctional effect” sites, where C-C bond of ethanol can be effective cut at Ir sites to generate C1 intermediates, and nearby PbO species could provide oxygenated-species. Actually, the as-prepared Ir-PbO/C catalysts with a mean metallic nanoparticle size of 2.6±0.5 nm can greatly improve the activity, stability and C1 pathway selectivity of EOR. Specifically, it exhibits superior mass activity of 1150 mA mg−1Ir in 1 M NaOH solution containing 1 M C2H5OH. Chronoamperometry tests show that the stability of Ir-PbO/C is also significantly improved compared with Ir/C. In situ electrochemical infrared absorption spectral results confirm that the addition of oxophilic PbO species could accelerate the oxidative removal of COad intermediates, thereby greatly improving catalytic performance. This study may give new insights into designing efficient anode catalysts for the direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFCs).

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Interfacial engineering Pb skin-layer at Rh surface to promote ethanol electrooxidation into CO2 in alkaline media

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