title: Oxygen-Assisted Synthesis of Mesoporous Palladium Nanoparticles as Highly Active Electrocatalysts.
abstract: Mesoporous Pd nanoparticles (MPNs) enclosed by high-index facets have been successfully prepared by taking advantage of successive oxygen adsorption and desorption caused by the oxidative etching effect. The as-prepared MPNs exhibit excellent performance toward formic acid electro-oxidation, which is due to the synergetic effect between the diffusion-feasible tubular mesochannels and the high index facets.
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044 (Japan).
authors.forename: Cuiling
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044 (Japan).|Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555 (Japan).
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044 (Japan).
authors.forename: Masataka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Imura
authors.affiliation: Environmental Remediation Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044 (Japan).
authors.forename: Naoto
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Umezawa
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044 (Japan).
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Malgras
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044 (Japan). Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.|Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555 (Japan). Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
keywords: electrocatalysts; formic acid; mesoporous materials; palladium; surfactants