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One-pot electrodeposition of cobalt flower-decorated silver nanotrees for oxygen reduction reaction
- Title
- One-pot electrodeposition of cobalt flower-decorated silver nanotrees for oxygen reduction reaction
- Authors
- Cho Y.-B.; Moon S.; Lee C.; Lee Y.
- Ewha Authors
- 이종목; 이영미
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 이종목; 이영미
- Issue Date
- 2017
- Journal Title
- Applied Surface Science
- ISSN
- 0169-4332
- Citation
- Applied Surface Science vol. 394, pp. 267 - 274
- Keywords
- Bimetallic electrocatalyst; Cobalt; Nanotree; Oxygen reduction reaction; Silver
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V.
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- In this paper, we demonstrate a simple fabrication of bimetallic silver (Ag) and cobalt (Co) nanostructures (AgCo) with various Ag to Co relative contents via electrochemical co-deposition. A series of AgCo catalysts was electrodeposited on glassy carbon (GC) electrodes at −0.57 V vs. SCE in the deposition solutions, containing Ag precursor, Co precursor, Triton X-100, and 0.3 M KNO3 aqueous solution, with various Ag to Co precursor concentration ratios (1:x, x was varied from 3 to 11). The films, deposited with the total deposition charge of 0.042C, were denoted as Ag1Cox. SEM and TEM analyses showed that Ag1Cox formed a structure consisted of flower-like Co grown on tree-like Ag backbones while it had more Co flowers with a greater x. The ORR activities were examined in 0.1 M NaOH solution with rotating disk electrode (RDE) voltammetry and Ag1Co7 showed the best catalytic activity. The co-deposition mechanism was further investigated by varying the deposition time of Ag1Co7. At the early stage of deposition, Ag-tree branches were formed predominantly, followed by the growth of flower-like Co nanostructures on the Ag nanotrees: More Co flowers were produced on Ag backbones with longer deposition time, being attributed to both a less negative reduction potential of Ag+ to Ag than Co2+ to Co and promoted Co2+ reduction on the initially formed Ag surface. Ag1Co7 electrodeposited for 200 s, consisted of ∼14% Co, showed the greatest ORR catalytic activity which was better or comparable to noble metal Pt. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.10.068
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- 자연과학대학 > 화학·나노과학전공 > Journal papers
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