Technology - Carbon-Supported Gold, Platinum, Gold-Based Binary and Ternary Alloy Nanoparticles for Fuel Cell Catalysts

Carbon-Supported Gold, Platinum, Gold-Based Binary and Ternary Alloy Nanoparticles for Fuel Cell Catalysts

Technology that allows controllable preparation of highly active carbon-supported monometallic, binary and ternary nanoparticles as fuel cell catalysts


 Technology Overview:

This invention describes a new technology that allows controllable preparation of highly active carbon-supported monometallic, binary and ternary nanoparticles as fuel cell catalysts. The working principles of the preparation involve core-shell approach in nanoparticle synthesis, controlled assembly and controlled calcination. The immediate application of this technology is fuel cell catalysis technology. In addition, it may find a wide range of applications involving the use of metal catalysts.
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 Advantages:

 
  • Size is fully controllable in the 2-nm range with highly monodispersity.
  • The monometallic, binary and ternary compositions are fully controllable.
  • The nanoparticles are assembled onto carbon support with controllable loading.
  • Carbon-supported nanoparticle catalysts can controllably calcinated with desired sizes and compositions.
  • Calcinated carbon-supported catalysts exhibited electrocatalytic activities higher than existing commercial catalysts.

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