Efficient direct formic acid electrocatalysis enabled by rare earth-doped platinum-tellurium heterostructures.

ABSTRACT: The lack of high-efficiency platinum (Pt)-based nanomaterials remains a formidable and exigent challenge in achieving high formic acid oxidation reaction (FAOR) and membrane electrode assembly (MEA) catalysis for direct formic acid fuel cell (DFAFC) technology. Herein, we report 16 Pt-based heterophase nanotrepang with rare earth (RE)-doped face-centered cubic Pt (fcc-Pt) and trigonal Pt-tellurium (t-PtTe₂) configurations ((RE-Pt)-PtTe₂ HPNT). Yttrium (Y) is identified as the optimal dopant, existing as single sites and clusters on the surface. The (Y-Pt)-PtTe₂ HPNT/C demonstrates the superior mass and specific activities of 6.4 A mg_Pt^-1 and 5.4 mA cm^-2, outperforming commercial Pt/C by factors of 49.2 and 25.7, respectively

SUBMITTER: Lin X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11696842 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature