Surface voltammetric dealloying investigation on PdCu/C electrocatalysts toward ethanol oxidation in alkaline media
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Voltammetric dealloying is employed here to investigate the correlations between catalytic performance and surface composition and structure, taking ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) on Pd-Cu alloy surface as a case study. First, home-made PdCu/C with a mean particle size of ca. 3.11 ± 0.6 nm is dealloyed by repetitive potential cycling in 0.5 M H2SO4. With dealloying cycles rising, the Cu component is gradually leached out and the corresponding Pd/Cu atomic ratio gradually increases from ca. 2.1 to 4.0; meanwhile, SEM images display that Pd-rich porous shell is formed due to dealloying-induced surface structural rearrangement, being verified by the appearance of ear-like peaks at − 0.015 V (vs. SCE) in CVs collected in 0.5 M H2SO4; furthermore, XPS spectra indicate that core-level binding energies of Pd 3d5/2 first positively shift to 336.1 eV and then oppositively move down to 334.9 eV, indicating that the d-band center of Pd composition is modulated by the dealloying treatment. Moreover, the voltammetric peak current densities for EOR follow the order of PdCu/C-DA15 > as-prepared PdCu/C ˃ > PdCu/C-DA30 ˃ commercial Pd/C ˃ PdCu/C-DA75, due to the modest downshift of Pd d-band center resulted by charge transfer and surface atomic rearrangement. In addition, the EOR durability gradually decays with the continuous loss of Cu, indicating that electro-oxidation of surface species also follows the so-called bi-functional mechanism. This work might provide some new insights into the catalysis enhancement by tuning the surface/interfacial structure of catalysts.
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