A facile two-step method is developed for large-scale synthesis of chemically ordered Pt 3 Co nanoparticles (NPs) as a high-performance catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction. Due to the NaCl-matrix as dispersing media avoids the severe aggregation during the high-temperature annealing process, the resulting Pt 3 Co NPs are pure and well crystallized with narrow size distribution. Furthermore, the chemically ordered Pt 3 Co NPs exhibit excellent HER property in acidic solution. Our methodology can be also applied to synthesis of other Pt-based NPs.
We developed a solid phase method to fabricate structurally ordered Pt 3 Co/C nanoparticles (NPs) with controllable component proportion as a high efficiency catalyst toward oxygen-reduction reaction. As a result, Pt 3 Co/C NPs exhibit high crystallinity with small average size and narrow size distribution. Moreover, the ordered Pt 3 Co/C NPs own enhanced ORR catalytic performance in acid. During the preparation process, the NaCl-matrix acts synergistically with carbon black as nanoreactors for Pt alloying with Co, avoiding serious sintering resulted by annealing at high temperature. Furthermore, other Pt-based NPs supported on carbon can also be prepared by this methodology.