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Photocatalytic Reduction Synthesis of Ternary Ag Nanoparticles/Polyoxometalate/Graphene Nanohybrids and Its Activity in the Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Reduction

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Ternary Ag nanoparticles (NPs)@polyoxometalate (POM)/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanohybrids were prepared by a facile photoreduction method, using POM as the photocatalyst, reducing and bridging molecules. The structure of the nanohybrids was characterized by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, etc. Most importantly, both the rotating disk electrode and rotating ring-disk electrode tests indicated that the Ag NPs@POM/rGO nanohybrids exhibited excellent electrocatalytic activity towards oxygen reduction reaction via a direct four-electron transfer pathway due to the synergistic effect of Ag NPs and rGO.

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This work was supported by the Wuhan Planning Project of Science and Technology (2013011001010480); National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21371173, 51402298) and China Postdoctoral Foundation (No. 2014M550846).

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    1. Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Chemical Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Jianghan University, Wuhan, 430056, China

      Zhaowei Xian, Zhihua Yang & Chunhua Chen

    2. Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

      Rongji Liu, Shuangshuang Zhang, Hongbin Cao & Guangjin Zhang

    3. Jianghan University Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Wuhan, 430056, China

      Hang Li & Wanquan Zheng

    4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

      Shuangshuang Zhang

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    Xian, Z., Liu, R., Li, H. et al. Photocatalytic Reduction Synthesis of Ternary Ag Nanoparticles/Polyoxometalate/Graphene Nanohybrids and Its Activity in the Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Reduction. J Clust Sci 27, 241–256 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-015-0926-2

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