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Influence of ultrathin poly-(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) film supports on the electrodeposition and electrocatalytic activity of discrete platinum nanoparticles

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Coating a carbon electrode surface, specifically highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) with an ultrathin film of poly-(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), PEDOT, provides a support on which a high density of uniformly dispersed Pt nanoparticles (NPs) can readily be formed by electrodeposition. The NPs tend to be much smaller, have a higher surface coverage, better dispersion and show a much lower tendency to aggregate, than Pt NPs produced under identical electrochemical conditions on HOPG alone. The electrocatalytic activity of the NPs was investigated for methanol (MeOH) and formic acid (HCOOH) oxidation. Significantly, for similarly prepared particles, Pt NP-PEDOT arrays exhibited higher catalytic activity (in terms of current density, based on the Pt area), towards MeOH oxidation, by an order of magnitude, and towards HCOOH oxidation at high potentials, than Pt NPs supported on native HOPG. These findings can be rationalised in terms of the enhanced oxidation of adsorbed CO, a key reaction intermediate and a catalyst poison. This research provides strong evidence that employing conducting polymers, such as PEDOT, as a support substrate, can greatly improve particular catalytic reactions, allowing for better catalyst utilisation in fuel cell technology.

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We are grateful to the following for support of this work: (1) equipment from Birmingham Science City (West Midlands centre for Advanced Materials, co-supported by the European Regional Development Fund; Hydrogen Energy Project); (2) COST D36; (3) the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and EPSRC for support for HVP; (4) the EPSRC for support of SCSL, PRU and JVM (EP/H0239091); (5) Ministerio de Ciencia c Innovaciόn (CTO2010-17127) and Junta de Castilla y León (GR-71, BU006A09); (6) the Academy of Finland (VR).

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Hollie V. Patten, Edgar Ventosa, Stanley C. S. Lai, Julie V. Macpherson & Patrick R. Unwin

  2. Departamento de Química, Universidad de Burgos, Pza. Misael Bañuelos s/n, 09001, Burgos, Spain

    Edgar Ventosa, Alvaro Colina & Jesús López-Palacios

  3. Centro de Tecnologías Electroquímicas, Parque Tecnológico de San Sebastián, Paseo Miramón 196, 20009, San Sebastián, Spain

    Virginia Ruiz

  4. National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW, UK

    Andrew J. Wain

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Patten, H.V., Ventosa, E., Colina, A. et al. Influence of ultrathin poly-(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) film supports on the electrodeposition and electrocatalytic activity of discrete platinum nanoparticles. J Solid State Electrochem 15, 2331–2339 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-011-1446-0

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