Front Cover: Application of AgPt Nanoshells in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells: Experimental and Theoretical Insights of Design Electrocatalysts over Methanol Crossover Effect (ChemCatChem 23/2022)

Abstract

The Front Cover shows that nanoengineering is a breakthrough way to look at the electrocatalysis field under a different perspective. In their Research Article, M. Aurélio Suller Garcia, T. Silva Rodrigues and co-workers provided the design of a hollow AgPt-based electrocatalyst with improved resistance to methanol for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells applications. After immobilization onto SiO2, the nanostructures presented remarkable stability, with a four-electron oxygen reduction reaction mechanism as the Pt/C commercial catalyst, with 20 times less Pt content. More information can be found in the Research Article by M. Aurélio Suller Garcia, T. Silva Rodrigues and co-workers.