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A Supported Palladium on Gallium-based Liquid Metal Catalyst for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction

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Developing high-performance catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction to replace costly platinum-based materials is of great importance but still confronted with challenges. Herein, a kind of supported palladium liquid metal catalyst, which is prepared by galvanic replacement, surpasses commercial Pt/C and Pd/C in oxygen reduction catalysis with a higher half-wave potential of 0.92 V, mass activity of 1.85 A/mgPd at 0.90 V, and superior durability. The liquid metal support can both optimize the electronic structures of Pd sites and guarantee the dispersion of Pd atoms, which explains the enhanced activity and durability, respectively. This work opens an avenue for rational design of catalysts.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021YFE0191700), the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22073033, 21873032, 21673087, 21903032), the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province, China(No.2108085QB70), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China(Nos. WK2060000004, WK2060000021, WK2060000025, KY2060000180, 2019kfyR-CPY116), the Collaborative Innovation Program of Hefei Science Center of CAS(No.2021HSC-CIP002), the Natural Science Foundation of Hefei City, China(No. 2021044), the Startup Fund from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Nos.2006013118, 3004013105), and the Innovation and Talent Recruitment Base of New Energy Chemistry and Device, China (No.B21003).

The calculation work was carried out at the LvLiang Cloud Computing Center of China, and the calculations were performed on TianHe-2. The computing work was supported by the Public Service Platform of High Performance Computing by the Network and Computing Center of HUST. Thank the funding support from CAS Fujian Institute of Innovation. We acknowledge the Experimental Center of Engineering and Material Science in the University of Science and Technology of China. We thank the photoemission end stations BL1W1B in Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility(BSRF), BL14W1 in Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), BL10B and BL11U in National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory(NSRL) for the help in characterizations.

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  1. First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R. China

    Chunrong Ma, Xiaoqian Wang, Lin Tian, Haoran Zhang, Cai Chen & Yuen Wu

  2. Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian, 116023, P. R. China

    Chunrong Ma & Yuen Wu

  3. Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry and Materia Medica, Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Materials Chemistry and Service Failure, Hubei Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials and Medical Protective Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China

    Bingyi Song & Li-ming Yang

  4. National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory(NSRL), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230029, P. R. China

    Zhentao Ma & Xusheng Zheng

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Ma, C., Song, B., Ma, Z. et al. A Supported Palladium on Gallium-based Liquid Metal Catalyst for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ. 38, 1219–1225 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40242-022-2092-z

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