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Precipitation of Pt nanoparticles on CeO$$_{2}$$ films using electron beams and $$gamma$$-rays

Yamamoto, Shunya; Sugimoto, Masaki; Miyashita, Atsumi; Hakoda, Teruyuki; Yamaki, Tetsuya; Mori, Toshiyuki*

Platinum modified with cerium oxide (Pt-CeO$$_{x}$$) is considered as promising cathode materials for use in polymer membrane electrolyte fuel cells. A key process to make this active is formation of highly dispersed Pt nanoparticles on a CeO$$_{2}$$ surface. Therefore, there is a strong motivation for us to use this radiation technique for precipitation of the Pt nanoparticles on CeO$$_{2}$$ films, which would be expected to be a model electrocatalyst of Pt-CeO$$_{x}$$. We deposited the CeO$$_{2}$$ films on a SiO$$_{2}$$ substrate by magnetron sputtering. The CeO$$_{2}$$ films in an aqueous solution containing H$$_{2}$$PtCl$$_{6}$$ and C$$_{2}$$H$$_{5}$$OH were irradiated with 2 MeV electron beams and $$^{60}$$Co $$gamma$$-rays at 50 kGy at maximum. The detailed analysis revealed homogeneous precipitation of metallic Pt by the irradiation with both the radiations, suggesting high applicability of the radiation-induced precipitation method to the preparation of the model Pt-CeO$$_{x}$$ electrocatalysts.

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