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Catalysis: Solution-Based Synthesis and Design of Late Transition Metal Chalcogenide Materials for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) (Small 1/2012)†

  1. Min-Rui Gao,
  2. Jun Jiang,
  3. Shu-Hong Yu*

Article first published online: 4 JAN 2012

DOI: 10.1002/smll.201290000

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Volume 8, Issue 1, page 12, January 9, 2012

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Gao, M.-R., Jiang, J. and Yu, S.-H. (2012), Catalysis: Solution-Based Synthesis and Design of Late Transition Metal Chalcogenide Materials for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) (Small 1/2012). Small, 8: 12. doi: 10.1002/smll.201290000

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  1. Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P.R. China

*Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P.R. China.

  1. †

    This paper is dedicated to Professor Yi-Tai Qian on the occasion of his 70th birthday

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  1. Issue published online: 4 JAN 2012
  2. Article first published online: 4 JAN 2012

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Keywords:

  • chalcogenides;
  • nanostructures;
  • synthesis;
  • oxygen reduction reaction;
  • electrocatalyst;
  • fuel cells
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The image features late transition metal chalcogenide (LTMC) nanomaterials produced via solution-based approaches, including hydrothermal/solvothermal, single-source precursor, hot-injection, template-directed soft synthesis, and Kirkendall-effect-induced soft synthesis approaches. Due to their low costs, good oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity, high methanol tolerance, and facile synthesis, LTMCs have been introduced as promising Pt-free ORR electrocatalysts. Furthermore, hybrids of LTMCs with other functional nanoparticles can lead to signi? cantly better ORR catalytic activity. It is expected that new synthetic approaches, modi? cation techniques, and LTMCs with desirable morphology, size, composition, and structures could be developed in the future to satisfy the requirements of commercial fuel cells.

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