Abstract
Combining the interests of core-shell and alloy structures, herein we report the versatile co-reduction synthesis of Pd@Pt-based core-shell nanoparticles. The current strategy can effectively tune the component of shell, from isolated Pt to binary PtNi alloy, then ternary PtNi-M (M = Fe or Cu) alloy. Further, significant improvement of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity is optimized by the change in shell component. Compared to Pd@Pt/C, Pd@PtNi/C catalyst presents the ORR-helpful mass activity of 1.29 A mg-1Pt. By incorporating a third metal (M) into shell layer, the optimized mass activity of Pd@PtNiFe/C and Pd@PtNiCu/C catalysts is 1.1 times and 1.4 times higher than that of Pd@PtNi/C, respectively. Meanwhile, the lower activity decays of 11.0% for Pd@PtNiFe/C and 10.6% for Pd@PtNiCu/C are obtained compared with that of Pd@PtNi/C (12.4%) after 5,000 cycles, respectively.
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