Electrocatalyst Fabrication Using Metal Nanoparticles Prepared in Ionic Liquids |
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| Authors: | Yu Yao Tetsuya Tsuda Tsukasa Torimoto Susumu Kuwabata |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, 14260 USA;2. Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8522 Japan;3. Department of Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8603 Japan;4. Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan |
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| Abstract: | Metal nanoparticle-based electrocatalysts are widely used in electronic devices, which serve for electrochemical reactions like oxygen reduction reaction, alcohol oxidation and CO2 reduction reaction. These catalyst-dependent reactions are the key of the emerging clean energy systems. Catalyst design and synthesis therefore have received keen attention in past decades. We are motivated to study synthesis approaches of metal nanoparticle-based electrocatalysts using ionic liquids (ILs), which are promising solvents for the nanoparticle preparation because of their unique physicochemical properties. In this personal account, we review our previous and present works on nanoparticle preparation in IL and utilization of the obtained nanoparticles as electrocatalysts. |
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| Keywords: | nanoparticle ionic liquid electrocatalyst synthesis |
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