Improving the electrical catalytic activity of Pt/TiO2 nanocomposites by a combination of electrospinning and microwave irradiation

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1655-1662

  Long, Qi ^a   Cai, Mei ^b   Li, Jinru ^a   Rong, Huilin ^a   Jiang, Long ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical catalytic activity; Electrospinning; Energy; Fuel cells; Microwave irradiation; Pt TiO2 nanofiber

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ENERGY; OXYGEN ELECTRODE; PEM FUEL CELL; PT NANOPARTICLES; PT/TIO2 NANOFIBER; TIO; WEIGHT PERCENTAGES; WITHOUT AGGLOMERATION;

AGGLOMERATION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBERS; FUEL CELLS; IRRADIATION; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; PLATINUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOPARTICLE; PLATINUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROSPINNING; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79956116512     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-010-9919-0     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Bernard C, Planeix JM, Valerie B (1998) Fullerene-based materials as new support media in heterogeneous catalysis by metals. Appl Catal A 173:175-183 (Pubitemid 128410394)
2. Endo M, Kim YA et al (2003) Selective and efficient impregnation of metal nanoparticles on cup-stacked-type carbon nanofibers. Nano Lett 3:723-726 (Pubitemid 37140587)
3. Feng L, Li S, Li H, Zhai J, Song Y, Jiang L, Zhu D (2002) Super-hydrophobic surface of aligned polyacrylonitrile nanofibers. Angew Chem Int Ed 41(7):1221-1223 (Pubitemid 34413547)
4. Formo E, Lee E, Campbell D, Xia Y (2008) Functionalization of electrospun TiO2 nanofibers with Pt nanoparticles and nanowires for catalytic applications. Nano Lett 8:668-672 (Pubitemid 351346036)
5. Johannes S, Roel VK, Ten Hoopen S (2007) Nanosized catalysts for the anode of a PEM fuel cell EP 1808 920 A1
6. Li D, Xia Y (2003) Fabrication of titania nanofibers by electrospinning. Nano Lett 3:555-560 (Pubitemid 37140662)
7. Li D, Xia Y (2004) Electrospinning of nanofibers: reinventing the wheel? Adv Mater 16:1151-1170
8. Li D, McCann J, Gratt M, Xia Y (2004) Photocatalytic deposition of gold nanoparticles on electrospun nanofibers of titania. Chem Phys Lett 394:387-391
9. 2 nanofibers on titanium plates for implant applications. Appl Surf Sci 255:2456-2460
10. 2. Langmuir 24:9907-9915
11. 3 catalysts by a two-step sol-gel method. Nanotechnology 18:355601. doi:10.1088/0957-4484/18/35/355601
12. Martin CR (1996) Membrane-based synthesis of nanomaterials. Chem Mater 8:1739-1746
13. 2 supported Pt cathode catalyst for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Electrochem Commun 9:2256-2260
14. Rajalakshmi N, Lakshmi N, Dhathathreyan KS (2008) Nano titanium oxide catalyst support for proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Int J Hydrogen Energy 33:7521-7526
15. Reneker DH, Chun L (1996) Nanometre diameter fibres of polymer, produced by electrospinning. Nanotechnology 7:216-223. doi:10.1088/0957-4484/7/3/009 (Pubitemid 126558355)
16. Schmidt TJ, Gasteiger HA, Stab GD, Urban PM, Kolb DM, Behm RJ (1998) Characterization of high-surface-area electrocatalysts using a rotating disk electrode configuration. J Electrochem Soc 145:2354-2358 (Pubitemid 128602467)
17. Tekmen C, Suslu A, Cocen U (2008) Titania nanofibers prepared by electrospinning. Mater Lett 62:4470-4472
18. Teng XW, Black D, Watkins NJ, Gao YL, Yang H (2003) Platinum-maghemite core-shell nanoparticles using a sequential synthesis. Nano Lett 3:261-264 (Pubitemid 37130549)
19. Tian ZQ, Jiang SP, Liang YM, Shen PK (2006) Synthesis and characterization of platinum catalysts on multiwalled carbon nanotubes by intermittent microwave irradiation for fuel cell applications. J Phys Chem B 110:5343-5350
20. Wei MD, Konishi Y, Zhou HS, Sugihara H, Arakawa H (2004) A simple method to synthesize nanowires titanium dioxide from layered titanate particles. Chem Phys Lett 400:231-234
21. Whitesides GM, Grzybowski B (2002) Self-assembly at all scales. Science 295:2418-2421 (Pubitemid 34270248)
22. Yu WY, Tu WX, Liu HF (1999) Synthesis of nanoscale platinum colloids by microwave dielectric heating. Langmuir 15:6-9