A One-Pot Approach to Mesoporous Metal Oxide Ultrathin Film Electrodes Bearing 
One Metal Nanoparticle per Pore with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Properties

Guiet, Amandine; Reier, Tobias; Heidary, Nina; Felkel, Diana; Johnson, Benjamin; Vainio, Ulla; Schlaad, Helmut; Aksu, Yilmaz; Driess, Matthias; Strasser, Peter; Thomas, Arne; Polte, Jörg; Fischer, Anna

doi:10.1021/cm401135z

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A One-Pot Approach to Mesoporous Metal Oxide Ultrathin Film Electrodes Bearing One Metal Nanoparticle per Pore with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Properties

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Johnson, Benjamin
Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

Schlaad, Helmut
Helmut Schlaad, Kolloidchemie, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Max Planck Society;

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Guiet, A., Reier, T., Heidary, N., Felkel, D., Johnson, B., Vainio, U., et al. (2013). A One-Pot Approach to Mesoporous Metal Oxide Ultrathin Film Electrodes Bearing One Metal Nanoparticle per Pore with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Properties. Chemistry of Materials, 25(23), 4645-4652. doi:10.1021/cm401135z.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-F61B-4

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The controlled incorporation of single metal nanoparticles within the pores of mesostructured conducting metal oxide ultrathin films is demonstrated, taking advantage of the controlled metal precursor loading capacities of PS-b-P4VP inverse micellar templates. The presented one-pot approach denoted as Evaporation-Induced Hydrophobic Nanoreactor Templating (EIHNT) unusually involves the nanostructuration of the metal oxide via the hydrophobic shell of the micellar template, while the concomitant nanostructuration of the metal is achieved via its confinement in the hydrophilic micellar core. This approach is applied to tin-rich ITO and gold, to yield unique mesoporous tin-rich ITO ultrathin film electrodes remarkably loaded with one size-controlled gold nanoparticle per pore. Interestingly, the resulting tin-rich ITO-supported gold nanoparticles exhibit improved catalytic activity and durability in electrocatalytic CO oxidation compared to similarly sized gold nanoparticles supported on conventional ITO coatings.